The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

NOTE EDITORE

This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, theleast-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades. Illuminatingfor the first time a significant, but ignoredsubject, the booksupports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.

SOMMARIO

1. Slaves, Slavery and the Sahara 2. The Sahara: Grazing, War and Trade 3.The Medieval Saharan Slave Trade 4.The Land Ways and the Sea Ways 5. Faith in Abolition 6.The Slave Trade thriough Murzuk7.The Slave Trade through Ghadames and Ghat 8.The Wadai Road 9.The Slave Trade between Sahara and Mediterranean 10.The Mediterranean Middle Passage 11.Morocco: The Lasat Great Slave Market 12.The Delusions of Abolition

AUTORE

Wright, John

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780415589475
• Collana: History and Society in the Islamic World
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 0.75 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 1 b/w image, 19 tables and 1 line drawing
• Pagine Arabe: 240
• Pagine Romane: xiv