A Note on Slavery, Seclusion and Agrarian Change in Northern Nigeria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8976240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Porter (0000-0002-3672-1534, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 487-491 |
| Publication date | 1989-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002185370002449x |
| OpenAlex | W2100372391 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 20 |
For geographers and others working on contemporary development issues in Africa, the historical perspective is of considerable significance. Such topics as the incidence and form of indigenous slavery and slave-trading in pre-colonial times are particularly pertinent to modern-day studies of population and rural development, and work published by historians is read with interest by researchers outside the discipline. Thus, some years ago, discussion was generated between geographers and historians on the impact of slave raiding in Nigeria's ‘Middle Belt’, initially stimulated by a paper in the Journal of African History . As the subsequent debate illustrated, the relationship between modern population density and settlement patterns and pre-colonial slavery is a fascinating one
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Historiography · Indigenous · Perspective (graphical · Population · Population growth · Seclusion · Settlement (finance · Social science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Ecology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History
The Public, the Private, and the Sanitary
The 3Cs of Colonisation and their Impacts on African Slavery
Muslim Women Traders of Northern Nigeria
Muslim slavery and slaving
Wife Seclusion and the Spatial Praxis of Gender Ideology in Nigerian Hausaland
Reflections on Slavery, Seclusion and Female Labor in the Maradi Region of Niger in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911-52
Women and slavery in Africa
Rural Development
Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa
Farming systems and agrarian change in West Africa
Perspectives on Trade, Mobility and Gender in a Rural Market System
The Kambarin Beriberi
Sudanese and Saharan Studies
Population Density and ‘Slave Raiding’—A Comment
Plantations in the Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate
Population density and ‘slave raiding’—The case of the middle belt of Nigeria
Baba of Karo--A Woman of the Moslem Hausa
Nigerian Groundnut Exports
Aspects of West African Islam
Nigerian Groundnut Exports
Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa
Women and Slavery in Africa
The Kanuri of Bornu
Nigerian Perspectives
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2024 (33) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |