... of the state and the communities. In this narrative, slavery in Ethiopia is represented as a racialized prehistory of Atlantic slavery. The second narrative is the representation of slavery in a binary form: as a household practice within Ethiopia and the slave trade out of Ethiopia. This essay reinterprets...

... with the new situation. They had to be reduced to enforceable laws by the various sharia schools. The empires inherited the Mesopotamian plains, which required irrigation on a large scale based on massive slave labor. Commercially acquired slaves became the norm, and large concentrations of imported slaves...

... as not only domestic (household) and market-driven (chattel) but also polity-driven (military-administrative). We further seek to soften another binary, freedom and slavery, to underline the fact that the domain of unfreedom included a range of dependent relations. Because slave soldiers and administrators...

...Fatima Harrak ‘Abid al-Bukhari was a special army devised by Isma’il (1672–1727), the ‘Alawi sultan of Morocco, as an instrument of domination in a context characterized by pressing foreign threat and severe fragmentation of the country. It was not an army of slaves, since it was composed...

... a military system based exclusively on mamluk infantry, the vast majority of whom were of slave castes. By comparison to the mamluks, employment of military slaves and militia derived from the regions of sub-Saharan Africa that had occurred both before and after the Ottoman period has been overlooked...

... of the Atlantic model (slavery, slave trading, and the black diaspora), the Atlantic trade (commodities, including slaves out of West Africa), and Orientalism (Islam and Eastern visions of slavery). Part 2 develops a case study of a medieval Saharan commercial center, Awdaghust, to explore how these influences...

..., a human could not be enslaved as the Quran could not be put “in chains.” Ware argues that such a meaning of the nobility of the human and her election to be the lieutenant ( khalife ) of God is the driving force behind the wars of the Marabouts against the Atlantic slave trade. Diagne also engages...

... manifestations of Islam in West Africa within the epistemologies of the global intellectual economies of Islam, the colonial library, and the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition. The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa By Ware Rudolph T. III Chapel...

... and institutions still found in West Africa, which are themselves independent from practices and processes associated with the slave trade, Western imperialism, and colonialism. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 nationalism internationalism cosmopolitanism West Africa North Africa References...

..., enumerated, and rendered exchangeable by the new novel form in the serialized English press of the mercantilist era. In Capital , Vol. 1, in the chapter “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof,” Marx represents Robinson not as a well-armed slave trader, but rather as endowed with only a watch...

...- to reproduce the many myths that surround the expe- eral Population” that has been used in offrcial cen- rience of slavery in Mauritius and, more pertinently, suses since 1850 to denote all those who are not In- the role of ex-slaves and their descendants in Mauri- dian or Chinese. tius today. However...

... people. It preserves for slaves, nearly a quarter of a century after the abolition them a personal identity and the reassurance of group of British slavery. Those black Baptist Americans corn- solidarity in the face of alien forces or ideas. ing with a missionary purpose were the product...

... of from eastern Africa, by which I mean the coast south of the slave trade as part of the larger continental project Mogadishu right down to Sofala and its articulating to understand its demographic consequences...

... interregional aspects. Indeed, Machado, Richard B. Allen, Edward A. Alpers, and other scholars of Indian Ocean–Atlantic interfaces—slave trafficking in particular—have demonstrated how Indian Ocean African histories evidence shifting boundaries of relation and the reconfiguration of regional networks...

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... had “called on me with an account of 130 Negroes being thrown live into the sea, from on Board an English Slave Ship.” 1 Vassa, or Olaudah Equiano, had been born in the Kingdom of Benin, was enslaved as a child and sold on to Barbados, Virginia, and Montserrat in turn, and had in the end purchased...

... been striking and troubling especially in through capitalism has had a significant impact on regard to agricultural policy. Crichlow also discusses the Caribbean societies many of which passed through a impact on labor processes, land tenure, patterns of class phase of existence as slave...

... the transportation of goods relied on the rica in late pre-colonial times is dominated by slave muscle power of human porters. These porters were studies to an excessive degree. Although in many re- mostly people from the west of modern Tanzania, gions slavery was a major form of labor mobiliza...