The Problem of Slavery in African Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8977427 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederick Cooper (0000-0002-2594-4169, corresponding author), Faith Cooper (0009-0007-7927-7991, Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-125 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| 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/s0021853700016741 |
| OpenAlex | W2108610371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
| References cited | 113 |
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Ancient history · Genealogy · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History
Why Clove Plantations
The Pre-Colonial African State System
Angola and Mozambique, 1870–1905
East Africa 1870–1905
Slavery in Africa, 1804–1936
French Congo and Gabon 1886–1905
Africa on the Eve of Partition
Western Africa, 1870–1886
The Birth of a Plural Society
“A Concubine is Still a Slave”
Western Africa, 1886–1905
North Africa
Slavery in Non-Islamic West Africa, 1420–1820
Madagascar and France, 1870–1905
The Value of Disorder
The European Partition of Africa
The European Scramble and Conquest in African History
King Leopold's Congo, 1886–1908
Labor and Labor History in Africa
Labour scarcity and colonial labour strategies (and the Africans’ response) in German East Africa, 1885–1914
The 3Cs of Colonisation and their Impacts on African Slavery
African Diasporas and the Atlantic
Slaves, Porters, and Plantation Workers
The Archaeology of Slavery
Exchange Values
Slavery and Slaving in African History
Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire
The Cambridge History of Africa
A Sense of Self
“A mere business affair”?Women in the social and commercial worlds of nineteenth-century Madagascar
Shit, Blood, Artifacts, and Tears
“[P]ara Que Me Saque Cabesea Por Cabesa…”
Escravos e Penhorados como "mercadorias" na África Central Antiga
Slavery, Statehood, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Elements Obstructive to Economic Development
A mockery of freedom
A miragem da miscigenação
The Arc of the Moral Universe
Globalizing Racism and De-provincializing Muslim Africa
Expanding the Expansion of International Society
Considering Seasonal Plantation Visibility in 3D "Fertile" Digital Landscapes to Re-Examine Caribbean Panoptic Plantationscapes
Bringing the Slaves Back In
Revisiting Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopia
Demystifying “Islamic Slavery”
Slavery, Absorption, and Gender
The Politics of collaboration in Bulozi, 1890–1914
Para Compreender a “Escravidão Moderna”
Visions of the Sahara
A Shared Legacy
Slavery among the ‘Beta‐Israel’ in Ethiopia
Les traites négrières, ou les limites d'une lecture européocentrique
Underdevelopment, Modes of Production, and the State in Colonial Ghana
Slavery and pawnship in the Yoruba economy of the nineteenth century
The Subject of the Slave Trade
Capitalism and Cloves
The Slave Emancipation Problematic
No words of their own
African Historical Studies Academic Knowledge as 'Usable Past' and Radical Scholarship
Africa and the World Economy
Have You Ever Captured Anything for Your Parents?’ War, Captivity, and Slavery on the Precolonial Southern African Highveld, C.1800–71
Thoughts on the Western Savannah and Sahel
Slavery, Indentured Servitude, Legitimate Trade and the Impact of Abolition in the Gold Coast, 1874–1901
Slavery, Social incorporation and surplus extraction; the nature of free and unfree labour in South-East Africa
The 'Patriarchal Ideal' of Soninke Labor Migrants
Escape, Revolt, and Marronage in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Sierra Leone Hinterland
Slavery in Africa
The King's Men in Madagascar
Power, Honour and Shame
Legacies, logics, labors of love
Esclavage et commensalité à Ngazidja, Comores
Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa
Slavery, Anthropological Knowledge, and the Racialization of Africans
Farmers, traders, and labourers
Rank and class among the Asante and Fante in the nineteenth century
How People Moved among Ancient Societies
Memories and mechanisms of resistance to the Atlantic slave trade
Dependence, Unfreedom and Slavery in Africa
Whoever Leaves Their Traditions Is a Slave
A 'Despicable Shambles
The sacred meadows
The sacred meadows
Baba of Karo
Slaves without masters
L' Esclavage en Afrique précoloniale
Black majority
International encyclopedia of the social sciences.
Capitalism and Slavery
Cocoa, custom, and socio-economic change in rural Western Nigeria
Trade and politics in the Niger delta 1830-1885
Flight and rebellion
Slave and citizen
Time on the cross
A history of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545-1800.
The political economy of contemporary Africa
Slavery as an Industrial System
One Kind of Freedom
Slavery in Africa
Making of the English Working Class
History and Social Anthropology
The Uncommon market
Roll, Jordan, roll
Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology
Plantation slavery on the east coast of Africa
Dahomey, An Ancient West African Kingdom
Reckoning with Slavery
Royal Monopoly and Private Enterprise in the Atlantic Trade
The Origins of Capitalist Development
Sugar and slaves
Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Neither Slave nor Free
Slavery as an Industrial System
Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate
Esclavage d'échange et captivité familiale chez les Songhay-Zerma
Mozambique
West African Culture Dynamics
Sequel to Slavery
The Rise and Fall of Black Slavery
Reckoning with Slavery
Politics and Society in South Eastern Nigeria 1841 – 1906
Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America
Slaves, Palm Oil, and Political Power on the West African Coast
Slavery and Race Relations in Latin America
The Political Crisis of Social History
The Economic Foundations of an Islamic Theocracy—The Case of Masina
African Slavery and other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade
Captive and client labour and the economy of the Bida Emirate
Slavery and the Slave Trade in Dār Fūr
The Study of Slavery in Africa
Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Context of West African History
Trade, State, and Society Among the Yao in the Nineteenth Century
Social and Economic Factors in the Muslim Revolution in Senegambia
Plantations in the Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate
The Compatibility of the Slave and Palm oil Trades in the Bight of Biafra
Slavery in the New World
Ashanti Law and Constitution
Historicism in Africa Slavery and State Formation
History and Social Anthropology
Baba of Karo--A Woman of the Moslem Hausa
Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa
The Economics of Slave Use on Two "Plantations" in the Zaria Emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate
Social Stratification in Africa
Economic Imperialism in West Africa
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism
Capitalism, Slavery and Ideology
Serfs, Peasants, and Socialists
Domestic Slavery in West Africa
The Sokoto Caliphate Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
L'organisation sociale du travail agricole des Soninke (Dyahunu, Mali)
Essai d'interprétation du phénomène économique dans les sociétés traditionnelles d'auto-subsistance
Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa
Economic Imperialism in West Africa
The Rise and Fall of Black Slavery
Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa
Social Stratification in Africa
Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century
Dahomey
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
La fête des coutumes au Dahomey
African Economic History
An Economic History of West Africa
Rationality and Irrationality in Economics
Essays in Comparative Social Stratification
Slavery, Islam and the Jakhanke people of West Africa
The Hausa System of Social Status
The Ohu System of Slavery in a Northern Ibo Village-group
Some Methodological Considerations for a Comparative Study of Slavery
Slavery
Long-distance exchange and the formation of the State
From reproduction to production
From Slavery to Freedom
Between Slavery and Freedom
Slavery and the Genesis of American Race Prejudice
Despotism, Status Culture and Social Mobility in an African Kingdom
| Unique citing works | 79 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,76 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2025 (45) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 79 |