Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2295199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann (0000-0002-1984-7864, Africa Institute, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 491-510 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-anthro-052621-022531 |
| OpenAlex | W4387873782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 95 |
Slavery in Africa dates to antiquity. Slave trading networks in Africa transported people across the Sahara and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, with significant numbers of people sent to the Middle East, India, central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia. Africa, however, was not only a source of export of people; enslaved persons were also imported into the continent. This article reviews scholarly research into the capture, trade, and use of enslaved men, women, and children in Africa, with a focus on Ghana. It suggests that the history and legacies of slavery and slave trading cannot be understood without reference to African historiography, the politics of knowledge production, and present-day heritage tourism. In reviewing the historical and anthropological research, it also introduces some of the possibilities, problems, and challenges of archaeological approaches to studying slavery and slave trading to demonstrate that archaeology is in conversation with-and of value to-those outside the discipline
Ancient history · Archaeology · Atlantic slave trade · Conversation · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Historiography · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Southeast asia · Tourism · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
Gender in African prehistory
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Trade castles and forts of West Africa.
Trade and politics on the Gold Coast, 1600-1720
Contested heritage and absent objects
Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism
Slavery in Africa
Women and slavery in Africa
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
The Invention of Africa
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa
Way of Death
Authenticating Dungeons, Whitewashing Castles
The Transactional Dynamics of Surplus in Landscapes of Enslavement
American Africans in Ghana
Slavery and Slaving in African History
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Where the Negroes Are Masters
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Daughters of the Trade
Gendered Encounters
Making History in Banda
Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850–Present
Toward an Archaeology of the Black Diaspora
Shit, Blood, Artifacts, and Tears
Residents' perceptions of Transatlantic Slave Trade attractions for heritage tourism in Danish-Osu, Ghana
Emotive histories
Slave Ships and Maritime Archaeology
Studying the History of Those Who Would Rather Forget
West African Trade and Coast Society
Government and Politics in the Akuapem State, 1730-1850
Cherchez la Femme
Visiting death and life
The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana
Horrid Journeying
Transformations in Slavery
Trade and Economic Change on the Gold Coast, 1807-1874
The slave trade remembered on the former gold and slave coasts
From Dungeons to Dance Parties
Global Encounters
Asen Praso in History and Memory
History, Memory, Slave-Trade and Slavery in Anlo (Ghana)
Socio-political change on a slave-raiding frontier
Coups, castles, and cultural heritage
Castle Slaves of the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast (Ghana)
West African archaeology and the Atlantic slave trade
Forts, Castles and Society in West Africa
Slavery
The Varied Colors of Slave Heritage in West Africa
Culture contact, continuity, and change on the Gold Coast, AD 1400–1900
The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Africans and Europeans in West Africa
Slavery, Indentured Servitude, Legitimate Trade and the Impact of Abolition in the Gold Coast, 1874–1901
African Slavery and other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade
The Study of Slavery in Africa
The Problem of Slavery in African Studies
The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade
The slippery paths of commemoration and Heritage tourism
The Middle Passage and the Material Culture of Captive Africans
Autoarchaeology at Christiansborg Castle (Ghana)
Archaeological approaches to slavery and unfree labour in Africa
Archaeological manifestations of cross-cultural encounters along the Dixcove coastline, Western Region, Ghana
The Uncommon Market
Structural adjustment programmes and the international tourism trade in Ghana, 1983-99
History in the Dungeon
Whispers and Silences
What Is to Be Remembered
Marketing its Colonial Heritage
Slavery and Its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora
Ama
The Slave Trade in Northern Ghana
Asante in the Nineteenth Century
Settlements, Trade, and Politics in the Seventeenth Century Gold Coast
Rites of Passage, Routes of Redemption
Islam, archaeology and slavery in Africa
"Find their Level". African American Roots Tourism in Sierra Leone and Ghana
West African Coastal Slavery in the Nineteenth Century
Northern Gothic
Rank and class among the Asante and Fante in the nineteenth century
Sank⊃fa Site
Tourists as Pilgrims
Colonial Entanglements and the Practices of Taste
Tourism in Ghana
Reading Blackface in West Africa
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |