Table of Contents

List of maps and tables; Note on currencies, weights and measures; Preface; Preface to the second edition; 1. Africa and slavery; 2. On the frontiers of Islam, 1400–1600; 3. The export trade in slaves, 1600–1800; 4. The enslavement of Africans, 1600–1800; 5. The organization of slave marketing, 1600–1800; 6. Relationships of dependency, 1600–1800; 7. The nineteenth-century slave trade; 8. Slavery and 'legitimate trade' on the West African coast; 9. Slavery in the Savanna during the era of the Jihads; 10. Slavery in Central, Southern and Eastern Africa in the nineteenth century; 11. The abolitionist impulse; 12. Slavery in the political economy of Africa; Appendix; Chronology of measures against slavery; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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This book examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context.

Reviews

'The publication of the second edition of Paul Lovejoy's Transformation in Slavery is something of a benchmark for those who study African slavery … Transformation in Slavery will remain a vital entry in the bibliography of any study of African slavery; historical or contemporary for some time.' The English Historical Review