Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa

ISBN-13: 9781138059542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 298 str.

Paul E. Lovejoy

Opis

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.

Spis treści

Part 1: Issues of Enslavement  1. Ethnicity, Culture and Religion in Global Africa  2. Experiences of the Enslaved in Africa  3. Regulation and Patterns in Collaboration in the Slave Trade  Part 2: Enforced Migration  4. Pawnship, Slavery and Freedom  5. Concubinage, Polygyny, and the Status of Women  6. Children of the Slave Trade  7. Enslaved Muslims from the Central Sudan  Part 3: Life Stories of Enslavement  8. Transatlantic Transformations in Identities  9. Freedom Narratives of Trans-Atlantic Slavery  10. The Odyssey of Catherine Mulgrave Zimmerman  Part 4: Identity and Diaspora in Global Africa  11. Situating Identities: Methodology through the Ethnic Lens  12. Scarification and the Loss of History in the African Diaspora  13. Enslaved Africans and their Expectations of Slave Life in the Americas 

O autorze

Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History.