Slavery in the global diaspora of Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovejoy, Paul E. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Global Africa ; 12.
Subjects:
Slavery > Africa > History.
Slavery > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Slavery > Islamic countries > History.
Slavery > Religious aspects > Islam.
Slave trade > Africa > History.
African diaspora.
Africans > Foreign countries > Ethnic identity.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Africa.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Islamic countries.
Sklaverei.
Vertreibung.
Ethnische Identität.
Afrika.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 297 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Conceptualizing slavery in global Africa
  • Issues of enslavement
  • Ethnicity, culture and religion in global Africa
  • Experiences of the enslaved in Africa
  • Regulation and patterns in collaboration in the slave trade
  • Enforced migration
  • Pawnship, slavery and freedom
  • Concubinage, polygyny, and the status of women
  • Children of the slave trade
  • Enslaved Muslims from the central Sudan
  • Life stories of enslavement
  • Transatlantic transformations in identities
  • Freedom narratives of trans-Atlantic slavery
  • The odyssey of Catherine Mulgrave Zimmermann
  • Identity and diaspora in global Africa
  • Situating identities: methodology through the ethnic lens
  • Scarification and the loss of history in the African diaspora
  • Enslaved Africans and their expectations of slave life in the Americas
  • Conclusion: Reflections on the study of slavery.