Slaves and Slavery in Africa: Volume Two: The Servile Estate

by John Ralph Willis (Editor)

Overview

First Published in 1986. Slavery in Islamic Africa has been a fascinating subject to which many scholars have referred, but of which no detailed monograph has emerged. The better part of the essays in these volumes has its ancestry in a conference held at Princeton University during the Summer of 1977 under the title: “Islamic Africa: Slavery and Related Institutions”. At that international gathering, four principal themes dominated discussion: the servile estate, its genesis and composition; the master-slave connection and the post-servile condition; patterns and perspectives of slave trading; the legacy of Islamic slavery in Africa to contemporary societies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714632018
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/31/1986
Series:	Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa Ser. , #2
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Ralph Willis Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Table of Contents

Preface I. The ‘Ulama’ of Fas, Mulay Isma‘il, and the Issue of the Haratin of Fas II. Notes on Slavery in the Songhay Empire III. Comparative West African Farm-Slavery Systems IV. Ahmad Rasim Pasha and the Suppression of the Fazzan Slave Trade, 1881–1896 V. Slavery and Society in Dar Fur VI. Al-Zubayr Pasha and the Zariba Based Slave Trade in the Bahr al-Ghazal 1855–1879 VII. The Ethiopian Slave Trade and Its Relation to the Islamic World VIII. Black Slavery in Egypt During the Nineteenth Century as Reflected in the Mahkama Archives of Cairo IX. The Slave Mode of Production Along the East African Coast, 1810–1873