This article follows on recent literary influences in the study of history and historiography in suggesting that our understanding of the Saharan slave trade has been shaped by two nineteenth-century discourses : "abolitionism" and "orientalism". It argues that they intersected in the process of appropriating the trade in slaves into and across the Sahara for the Abolitionist movement, exemplified in the work of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, and continued to speak through the contemporary accounts of travelers and articles of journalists. An examination of some of the key twentieth century works on the subject, beginning with the influential books of E. W. Bovill, reveals their recurring language and concepts in the context of the larger evolvi...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
National audienceWhat do we talk about when we talk about 'slave narratives?' African American slave...
Scholars have shed so much ink trying to document the European propelled Atlantic Slave Trade, but c...
This article follows on recent literary influences in the study of history and historiography in sug...
This piece has studied the basic facts of black slavery and its consequences on the African contine...
This article investigates the causes of the resilience of slavery in the region of Tahoua in the Rep...
This article examines the relative importance of Muslim merchants in the slave trade of West Africa,...
Wherever dechristianisation could not have possibly materialised, in those polities which abandoned ...
Through a comparative study of literary figurations and institutional records of slavery, Writing At...
So far, little research has been done on the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the social and po...
So far, little research has been done on the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the social and po...
AbstractThis article reviews three books that address the memory and commemoration of the slave trad...
This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Aid...
This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Ai...
International audienceWhat do we talk about when we talk about 'slave narratives?' African American ...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
National audienceWhat do we talk about when we talk about 'slave narratives?' African American slave...
Scholars have shed so much ink trying to document the European propelled Atlantic Slave Trade, but c...
This article follows on recent literary influences in the study of history and historiography in sug...
This piece has studied the basic facts of black slavery and its consequences on the African contine...
This article investigates the causes of the resilience of slavery in the region of Tahoua in the Rep...
This article examines the relative importance of Muslim merchants in the slave trade of West Africa,...
Wherever dechristianisation could not have possibly materialised, in those polities which abandoned ...
Through a comparative study of literary figurations and institutional records of slavery, Writing At...
So far, little research has been done on the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the social and po...
So far, little research has been done on the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the social and po...
AbstractThis article reviews three books that address the memory and commemoration of the slave trad...
This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Aid...
This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Ai...
International audienceWhat do we talk about when we talk about 'slave narratives?' African American ...
This essay discusses the important contributions of Padraic Scanlan’s book Freedom’s Debtors: Britis...
National audienceWhat do we talk about when we talk about 'slave narratives?' African American slave...
Scholars have shed so much ink trying to document the European propelled Atlantic Slave Trade, but c...