West African Slave Plantation
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan (GB) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780230120167 |
| Open Library | OL24194166W |
| Total publications | 7 |
| Coverage period | 2011 - 2011 |
| Language | EN |
| Cited by | 4 |
| h-index | 1 |
Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative l
The Management of Plantations in the Fanisau Complex
What was the nature of labor organization on the estates of Fanisau? Who determined the labor needs and set the activities of fieldworkers on a daily basis, and what incentives motivated such individuals? What were the principal crops of the plantations? How were crops planted and harvested? How were plantation yields used? How were commodities transported out of Fanisau for necessary disposal? What impact did the pattern of using plantation yiel…
General Conclusion
Although the shari’a and Islamic documents produced in the Sokoto Caliphate are silent on plantations, these structures have had an important place in the history of that state. This study has examined general developments in Kasar Kano to illustrate this point. The growth of the plantation sector in this region passed through two main phases. The first phase began during the reign of Burja in the medieval era, and lasted to the reign of Emir Sul…
The Development of the Fanisau Plantation Complex
Historical sources are not silent on the origin of Fanisau. According to one tradition collected by Yusuf Yunusa, the settlement was founded during Emir Ibrahim Dabo’s reign and was first settled by his “trusted slaves.”1 This view accords well with the assertion of the first European traveler, Clapperton, who visited Fanisau in the early 1820s, and who reported, “[After breakfast I accompanied Hat Salah, the sheikh’s agent, to the sansan, which,…
Sociocultural Life at Fanisau
The previous chapter emphasized the role of slaves in production, and the use of violence to extract surplus agricultural slave labor. In Fanisau, as elsewhere, violence was implicitly part of the slave system. Regardless of this fact, however, there were mechanisms of reward and incentive. Such nonviolent mechanisms are important if the system is to be productive. In recognition of this fact, estate owners employed noncoercive policies in order …
Slave Resistance, Control of Slave Labor, and Groundnut Production
F anisau and several other Kano Emirate societies produced mainly grain crops during the nineteenth century in part for consumption within Kano and in part for regional distribution either across the Sahara or southward toward the forest region of West Africa. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, Britain annexed Northern Nigeria and increasingly encouraged the broad region, including the Kano Emirate, to produce cotton and groundnuts fo…
Kasar Kano
The area in which Fanisau is located has a long history of consistent interaction with other settlements and peoples constituting a fraction of Kasar Kano. This chapter examines that larger historical setting. Thus, it starts by discussing the history of Kasar Kano before proceeding to explain early plantation developments in that region. 1 The chapter also examines the jihad and its impact on the plantation sector in what became the Kano Emirate…
The West African Slave Plantation
Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative l
The West African Slave Plantation
Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative l
The Management of Plantations in the Fanisau Complex
What was the nature of labor organization on the estates of Fanisau? Who determined the labor needs and set the activities of fieldworkers on a daily basis, and what incentives motivated such individuals? What were the principal crops of the plantations? How were crops planted and harvested? How were plantation yields used? How were commodities transported out of Fanisau for necessary disposal? What impact did the pattern of using plantation yiel…
General Conclusion
Although the shari’a and Islamic documents produced in the Sokoto Caliphate are silent on plantations, these structures have had an important place in the history of that state. This study has examined general developments in Kasar Kano to illustrate this point. The growth of the plantation sector in this region passed through two main phases. The first phase began during the reign of Burja in the medieval era, and lasted to the reign of Emir Sul…
The Development of the Fanisau Plantation Complex
Historical sources are not silent on the origin of Fanisau. According to one tradition collected by Yusuf Yunusa, the settlement was founded during Emir Ibrahim Dabo’s reign and was first settled by his “trusted slaves.”1 This view accords well with the assertion of the first European traveler, Clapperton, who visited Fanisau in the early 1820s, and who reported, “[After breakfast I accompanied Hat Salah, the sheikh’s agent, to the sansan, which,…
Sociocultural Life at Fanisau
The previous chapter emphasized the role of slaves in production, and the use of violence to extract surplus agricultural slave labor. In Fanisau, as elsewhere, violence was implicitly part of the slave system. Regardless of this fact, however, there were mechanisms of reward and incentive. Such nonviolent mechanisms are important if the system is to be productive. In recognition of this fact, estate owners employed noncoercive policies in order …
Slave Resistance, Control of Slave Labor, and Groundnut Production
F anisau and several other Kano Emirate societies produced mainly grain crops during the nineteenth century in part for consumption within Kano and in part for regional distribution either across the Sahara or southward toward the forest region of West Africa. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, Britain annexed Northern Nigeria and increasingly encouraged the broad region, including the Kano Emirate, to produce cotton and groundnuts fo…
Kasar Kano
The area in which Fanisau is located has a long history of consistent interaction with other settlements and peoples constituting a fraction of Kasar Kano. This chapter examines that larger historical setting. Thus, it starts by discussing the history of Kasar Kano before proceeding to explain early plantation developments in that region. 1 The chapter also examines the jihad and its impact on the plantation sector in what became the Kano Emirate…
The West African Slave Plantation
Mohammed Bashir Salau addresses the neglected literature on Atlantic Slavery in West Africa by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative l