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

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : maps Series Global Africa ; 12 Global Africa ; 12. 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 -- Trans-Atlantic transformations in identities of Africans -- 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 Summary 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. The study explores the conceptual problems of studying slavery in Africa and the broader Atlantic world from a perspective that focuses on Africa and the historical context that accounts for this influence. Paul Lovejoy focuses on the parameters of the enforced migration of enslaved Africans, including the impact on civilian populations in Africa, constraints on migration, and the importance of women and children in the movement of people who were enslaved. The prevalence of slavery in Africa and the transformations of social and political formations of societies and political structures during the era of trans-Atlantic migration inform the book's research. The analysis places Africa, specifically western Africa, at the center of historical change, not on the frontier or periphery of western Europe or the Americas, and provides a global perspective that reconsiders historical reconstruction of the Atlantic world that challenges the distortions of Eurocentrism and national histories. Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, African history, Diaspora Studies, the Black Atlantic and the history of slavery Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Paul E. Lovejoyis Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2019) Subject 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 African diaspora -- Ethnic identity POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. HISTORY -- Africa -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General. Slavery -- Religious aspects -- Islam African diaspora Slave trade Slavery Africa Atlantic Ocean Region Islamic countries Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2018057837 ISBN 9781351671347 1351671340 9781351671330 1351671332 9781351671323 1351671324 9781315163499 1315163497

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