Women and slavery in Africa / edited by Claire C. Robertson, Martin A. Klein.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Other Authors: Robertson, Claire C., 1944- (Editor), Klein, Martin A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©1997.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Table of Contents:
  • Women's importance in African slave systems / Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein
  • African women in the Atlantic slave trade / Herbert S. Klein
  • Sexual demography: the impact of the slave trade on family structure / John Thornton
  • Female slavery / Claude Meillassoux
  • Women in slavery in the western Sudan / Martin A. Klein
  • Sustaining the system: trading towns along the Middle Zaire / Robert Harms
  • Slavery and reproductive labor in Mombasa / Margaret Strobel
  • The Songhay-Zarma female slave: relations of production and ideological status / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardon
  • Women in slavery among the Mangbetu c.1800-1910 / Curtis A. Keim
  • Slave wives, free sisters: Bakongo women and slavery c.1700-1850 / Susan Herlin Broadhead
  • The story of Swema: female vulnerability in nineteenth-century East Africa / Edward A. Alpers
  • Post-proclamation slavery in Accra: a female affair? / Claire C. Robertson
  • Bwanikwa: consciousness and protest among slave women in Central Africa, 1886-1911 / Marcia Wright
  • Slaves, slave owners, and slave dealers: Sherbro coast and hinterland / Carol P. MacCormack
  • A Nhara of the Guinea-Bissau region: Mãe Aurélia Correia / George E. Brooks
  • Women slavers of Guinea-Conakry / Bruce L. Mouser
  • Servitude and worldly success in the palace of Dahomey / Edna G. Bay.