The Ideology of Slavery in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3913159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francois Renault (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 720 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The Ideology of slavery in Africa, Paul E Lovejoy, 1981 |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/217859 |
| OpenAlex | W626628868 |
| Language | EN |
In this volume Lovejoy has collected original contributions that discuss the ideology of slavery in several regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Three basic ideologies are considered: one based on Islam, another based on kinship structures, and a third, an abolitionist ideology, based largely on Christianity. The authors show how ideology justified slavery, obscuring its role in the system of production, and the part coercion played in its maintenance. 'It gives cause to re-examine many past assumptions and should stimulate more sophisticated analyses in the future.' -- Canadian Journal of Development Studies
Ancient history · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
Placing Human Constants within Literary History
The Era of Legitimate Commerce, 1800–1870
Contracts With Eviction in Infinitely Repeated Principal–Agent Relationships
Interlinkages and the Pattern of Competition
Peasants' Risk Aversion and the Choice of Marketing Intermediaries and Contracts
Why Clove Plantations
A Note on Interlinked Rural Economic Arrangements
Agrarian Structure, Technological Innovations, and the State
Plantation Households
Institutional Analysis of Credit Co‐Operatives
Theories of Sharecropping
On Choice Among Creditors and Bonded Labour Contracts
A Comparison of Principal–Agent and Bargaining Solutions
Bondage
Credit Rationing, Tenancy, Productivity, and the Dynamics of Inequality
Production Relations in Semi‐Arid African Agriculture
Agricultural Institutions for Insurance and Stabilization
Rural Credit Markets
Some Aspects of Linked Product and Credit Market Contracts Among Risk‐Neutral Agents
Agricultural Producer Co‐Operatives
Slavery
Manufacturing
Sociocultural Life at Fanisau
Money and finance
Predation
Approaching the Roman economy
The contribution of economics
Contract labor
Toward a Genealogy of Gender, Gendered Names, and Naming Practices
Slavery
A forum on trade
Transport
“A Concubine is Still a Slave”
Credit and Agrarian Class Structure
Alternative Approaches to the Theory of Institutions in Economic Development
On the Definition of Slavery
“A Devotion to the Idea of Liberty at Any Price”
The Archaeology of Slavery
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy
Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850–Present
A Dangerous Awakening
Looking Like a State
Arabie du Sud-Afrique orientale
L'Itinéraire d'un débat
Becoming a slave-descendant
Introduction
Unanticipated consequences of 'humanitarian intervention
Livros sobre a História da África
Ethnography and a Regional System
Slavery, Statehood, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Dangerous Awakening
Slavery and Muslim Jurisprudence in Morocco
Freedom villages in the upper Senegal valley, 1887–1910
Slavery in Colonial Cameroon, 1880s to 1930s
Charles George Gordon and the problem of slavery in the Sudan
The Fire Behind the Smoke
Hausa Poems as Sources for Social and Economic History, II
The Fugitive Slave Circulars, 1875–76
Reconsidering Ivor Wilks’s “Big Bang” Theory of Akan History
East Africa
Maroon Archaeology beyond the Americas
Slave trade in the Sudan in the nineteenth century and its suppression in the years 1877–80
Introduction
The regularity of manumission at Rome
The Black Man's Burden
Power, Honour and Shame
Pointing to Property
Slavery and pawnship in the Yoruba economy of the nineteenth century
Reclaiming Lost Ancestors and Acknowledging Slave Descent
State and Ethnicity in Precolonial Northern Nigeria
Concubinage in the Sokoto caliphate (1804–1903)
Slavery, possession and history
African Women’s Access and Rights to Property in the Portuguese Empire
Swahili History and Society to 1900
The Slave Emancipation Problematic
Murgu
Slavery to freedom in sub‐Saharan Africa
Escape, Revolt, and Marronage in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone Hinterland
Land abundance and economic institutions
No words of their own
Conditions écologiques, crises de subsistance et histoire de la population à l'époque de la traite des esclaves en Sénégambie (17e-18e siècle)
The development and execution of Frederick Lugard's policies toward Slavery in Northern Nigeria
Facing Dilemmas
Translocal cultures
African Historical Studies Academic Knowledge as 'Usable Past' and Radical Scholarship
Social stratification on the Swahili coast
The Contribution of African Women to Economic Growth and Development in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods
Slavery, Indentured Servitude, Legitimate Trade and the Impact of Abolition in the Gold Coast, 1874–1901
Having a Road’
Concubinage and the Status of Women Slaves in Early Colonial Northern Nigeria
Ahyiamu -‘A Place of Meeting’
Slavery and Its Aftermath in the Mandara Mountains
Polanyi's 'Ports of Trade
The Bondsman's New Clothes
Accumulation, wealth and belief in Asante history
The significance of Drought, Disease and Famine in the agriculturally marginal zones of West-Central Africa
Fighting the Slave Trade
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