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The
End of Slavery in Africa
Edited by Suzanne Miers and Richard
Roberts
This is the first comprehensive assessment of the end of slavery
in Africa.
Editors Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts,
with the distinguished contributors to the volume, establish
an agenda for the social history of the early colonial period—when
the end of slavery was one of the most significant historical
and cultural processes. The End of Slavery in Africa is
a sequel to Slavery in Africa,
edited by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff and published by the
University of Wisconsin Press in 1977.
The contributors explore the historical experiences of slaves,
masters, and colonials as they all confronted the end of slavery
in fifteen sub-Saharan African societies. The essays demonstrate
that it is impossible to generalize about whether the end of
slavery was a relatively mild and nondisruptive process or whether
it marked a significant change in the social and economic organization
of a given society. There was no common pattern and no uniform
consequence of the end of slavery. The results of this wide-ranging
inquiry will be of lasting value to Africanists and a variety
of social and economic historians.
"The end of slavery is one of the most misunderstood major
social changes to take place in colonial Africa. Many people
believe that the Emancipation Act of 1834 ended all slavery in
the British empire. It did not; forms of slavery continued under
British and French rule into the 1930s. Miers and Roberts' collection
of essays goes a long way to correct false impressions. The editors
provide an excellent introduction to the volume, and Igor Kopytoff's
concluding essay on African emancipation in its rural context
is alone worth the price of admission."—Philip D. Curtin,
The Johns Hopkins University
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Back in Print
January 2005
LC: 88-040192 HT
544 pp. 6 x 9 16 maps
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-11554-8 Paper $27.95 s
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