...Abdul Sheriff Slavery is not a fixed condition but a spectrum of unfreedom. The term Islamic slavery has been bandied about for four decades without an adequate definition. At the birth of Islam there were a large number of captives from endemic intertribal warfare, many of them Arabs who were...

...E. Ann McDougall The historiography of the Sahara and trans-Saharan trade provides an explanatory key as to how premodern Saharan slavery has been understood since the nineteenth century. Part 1 of McDougall’s article deconstructs that historiography in terms of the intersecting influences...

...Dahlia E. M. Gubara The study of something termed Arab/Islamic slavery has flourished in recent years. Through a close reading of a seminal text, ‘Aja’ib al-athar fi’l-tarajim wa’l-akhbar by the late eighteenth-century Ottoman scholar ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Gubara’s essay critically engages...

.... 5 No. 6 , March. Dillon , Merton L. 1990 . Slavery Attacked: Southern Slaves and Their Allies, 1619–1865 (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press). Diop , Cheikh Anta . 1988 . The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy...

... Twentieth Century . London: Verso Books. Beckles , Hilary McD . 1987 . “The Williams Effect': Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery and the Growth of West Indian Political Economy,” in Barbara Solow and Stanley L. Engerman (eds.), British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery. The Legacy of Eric...

...Vijaya Teelock © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 The Influence of Slavery in the Formation of Creole Identity Vijaya Teelock I would like first of all to situate Mauritius in the has African...

... of the Slavery Era Simone Schwarz-Bart with André Schwarz-Bart Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokurov, trans. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002 256 pp., $49.95 (cloth) In Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African Women Simone Schwarz-Bart with André Schwarz-Bart Rose-Myriam Réjouis...

...Mahmood Mamdani This set of essays seeks to broaden our conceptual understanding of slavery beyond the binary household/chattel slavery established by scholars taking their cue from transatlantic slavery to include militaryadministrative slavery as a third type, thus allowing us to think of slavery...

...Yonas Ashine Demisse Slavery in the mainstream historiography of Ethiopia is written from two perspectives: the first is a view of slavery as a mere product of a hitherto conquering empire state of qehy —“red” people and a conquered salim or “black” people—without opening up both the inside...

...M’hamed Oualdi In order to reframe our perception of the Mediterranean, Oualdi’s essay connects two aspects of northern African history usually treated separately, namely the historiography of colonialism and the historiography of Ottoman rule. Oualdi explores how the legacies of Ottoman slavery...

... in the social and political fabric of Isma’il’s state system, the institution of ‘abid al-Bukhari affords the scholar an opportunity to question the prevailing Atlantic slavery paradigm in an endeavor to move toward a broader characterization of bondage and servitude and a more nuanced system of power relations...

... in the recent and growing interest in military slavery in the historiography of the Ottoman domains in general. In Ottoman Tunis, for instance, while the existence of a lesser-known Sudanic military corps has been documented by contemporaneous sources, to date very little is known about their presence, roles...

... represents a powerful example of insurgent thought within the global history of slavery and emancipation in the British imperial world. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Jotirao Phule’s Satyashodh and the Problem of Subaltern Consciousness Dominic Vendell...

... future aching deep in the consciousness of a people with painful memories of suffering, struggle, and survival against the historical ravages of slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism, a longing for sustainable development, for viable African modernities. Recently, the dreams and discourses...

... , Arghiri ( 1972 ). “White Slavery and the Myth of Investment Imperialism,” New Left Review 73 . Hindess , Barry , and Paul Hirst, ( 1975 ). Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production . (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul) Lewis , Gordon , ( 1978 ). Slavery, Imperialism, and Freedom . (New York...

... and Slavery across the Indian Ocean . New York : Oxford University Press , 2016 . Alpers Edward . “ On Becoming a British Lake: Piracy, Slaving, and British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century .” In Harms , Indian Ocean Slavery...

... and Change: Reflections on the Caribbean . New York: Inter-American Development Bank. Trouillot , Michel-Rolph . “Motion in the System: Coffee, Color, and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Saint-Domingue,” Review V,3 (Winter, 1982 ): 331 –388. Waters , Malcolm . 1995 . Globalization . London...

...Shirley Gordon © 1997: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1997 ““Godis dumb until the drum speaks” Religious Life in Jamaica before hmancipauon Shirley Gordon The Jamaican religious experience during slavery, they left...

... ways. In “The Influence of Slavery in themes. All focus on the consequences of movement the Formation of Creole Identity?”Vijaya Teelock, who and migration by both South Asians and Africans. In teaches at the University of Mauritius, argues persua- certain ways they also speak...

..., in to ; tiable greed, debauched lust, and a desire to escape slavery and torture? Or were Or torture? and slavery escape to desire a and debauched lust, greed, tiable insa of because suggest, sources modern early many as it, Was convert? period ern hy indeed did so many English men...