Africa's Slaves Today

Africa’s Slaves Today, first published in 1975, examines the question of the persistence of slavery in modern Africa. It concludes that slavery is by no means dead in certain regions, but that at the same time clear-cut definitions of ‘slave’ and ‘free’ are often impossible to establish. In the Sahara particularly centuries of tradition involving slavery or semi-slavery have ensured a persistence of the status quo in all but name. Recent instances of Africans sold into slavery in Arabia are discussed, together with a detailed survey of slavery throughout North Africa and Ethiopia. At what stage forced labour becomes slavery is a difficult question raised by the discussion of the white South. The whole subject of slavery is put into perspective by contrasting examinations of the historical situation throughout the book

Ancient history · Political science · African history and culture studies · History · Africa · Forced labor · Slavery

• Between Conscious and Subconscious

  Open Access•Hagar Salamon•Ethos•2002

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• Slavery and Etiological Discourse in the Writing of Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and Buchi Emecheta

  Modupe Olaogun•Research in African Literatures•2002

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• In the Shadows of Fields

  Open Access•Muhammad Ayub Khan, Karl Behrendt et al.•Sociology Compass•2025

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• The development and execution of Frederick Lugard's policies toward Slavery in Northern Nigeria

  Jan Hogendorn, P E Lovejoy et al.•Slavery and Abolition•1989

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• Slavery among the ‘Beta‐Israel’ in Ethiopia

  Hagar Salamon•Slavery and Abolition•1994

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• Cow Tales

  Hagar Salamon•Slavery and Abolition•2008

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• Trafficked into Slavery

  Joel Quirk•Journal of Human Rights•2007

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• Spices for Thought

  Hagar Salamon•Northeast African Studies•2017

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• Blackness in Transition

  Hagar Salamon•Journal of Folklore Research•2003

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