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Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their forebears' social positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions that present new empirical evidence on contemporary manifestations of slavery and related phenomena in Mauritania, Benin, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, and the Gambia. As a whole, the volume advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West African slavery, this work highlights the preliminary contours of its recent reconfigurations.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Preface
A note on Language
1. Introduction: Rethinking Slavery in West Africa - Benedetta Rossi
2. Slave descent and Social Status in Sahara and Sudan - Martin A. Klein
3. African American psychologists, the atlantic Slave trade and Ghana: a History of the present - Tom McCaskie
4. After abolition: Metaphors of Slavery in the political History of the Gambia - Alice Bellagamba
5. Islamic patronage and republican emancipation: The Slaves of the Almaami in the Senegal river valley - Jean Schmitz
6. Curse and Blessing: on post-slavery Modes of perception and agency in Benin - Christine Hardung
7. Contemporary trajectories of Slavery in Haalpulaar Society (Mauritania) - Olivier Leservoisier
8. Slavery and politics: Stigma, decentralisation and political representation in Niger and Benin - Eric Komlavi Hahonou
9. Slavery and Migration: Social and physical Mobility in ader (Niger) - Benedetta Rossi
10. Discourses on Slavery: reflections on forty years of research - Philip Burnham
Glossary of Foreign Words
Index
