ENGLISH 240: Studies in World Literature

 

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Slavery in Africa
Books | Journal Articles | Websites

Selected Books

Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students (4 v.)
REF DT3.A249

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience (5 v.)
REF DT14.A37435

A to Z of Slavery and Abolition
REF HT861.K54

Black Mother: The Years of African Slave Trade
DT352.D33

Chronology of World Slavery
REF HT861.R63

Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery (2 v.)
REF HT861.H57

Slavery and African Life: occidental, oriental and African slave trades
HT1321.M36

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Selected Journal Articles

Alexander, J. "Islam, archaeology and slavery in Africa." World Archaeology 33.1 (June 2001): 44-60.

Campbell, Paulette Walker. "Studying Slavery's Legacy in Africa." Chronicle of Higher Education 45.24 (19 Feb. 1999): A12.

Diouf S. African Children: From Freedom to Slavery.. Growing up in Slavery [e-book].Lerner Publishing Group; 2001:9.

Dumett R. Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Towards Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Senegal and the Gold Coast.. International Journal of African Historical Studies [serial online]. 2005;38(3):533-536.

Ewald J. Slavery in Africa and the slave trades from Africa.. American Historical Review [serial online]. April 1992;97(2):465.

Gaugue, Anne. "Myths, censorship and the representation of precolonial history in the museums of tropical Africa." Museum International 53.3 (July 2001): 26-31.

Keita, Maghan. "Conceptualizing/Re-conceptualizing Africa: The Construction of African Historical Identity." Journal of Asian & African Studies (Brill) 36.4 (2001): 331-337.

Knox-Shaw, Peter. "DeFoe and the Politics OF Representing the African Interior." Modern Language Review 96.4 (Oct. 2001): 937-951.

Kusimba, Chapurukha M. "Archaeology of Slavery in East Africa." African Archaeological Review 21.2 (June 2004): 59-88.

Lovejoy P, Richardson D. Competing markets for male and female slaves: Prices in the interior of West Africa, 1780-1850. International Journal of African Historical Studies [serial online]. 1995;28(2):261.

Manning, Patrick. "Contours of Slavery and Social Change in Africa." American Historical Review 88.4 (Oct. 1983): 835

Sunseri T. Slave ransoming in German East Africa, 1885-1922.. International Journal of African Historical Studies [serial online]. 1993;26(3):481.

Yarak, Larry W. "West African Coastal Slavery in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of the Afro-European Slaveowners of Elmina." Ethnohistory 36.1 (Winter 1989): 44.

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Websites

Did We Sell Each Other into Slavery

The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery

Slavery in Africa

The Story of Africa: Slavery

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Contact: Rob Walsh, Reference & Instruction Librarian
Updated: October 2007