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Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery): 2 - Softcover

Benedetta Rossi

 
9781781383056: Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (Liverpool Studies in International Slavery): 2
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1781383057 ISBN 13: 9781781383056
Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their forebears' social positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.

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About the Author

Dr Benedetta Rossi is Lecturer in African Studies in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1781383057
ISBN 13 
9781781383056
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Editor
Benedetta Rossi