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Benedetta Rossi - Reconfiguring Slavery, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Reconfiguring Slavery

West African Trajectories

Av Benedetta Rossi

Del 2 i serien Liverpool Studies in International Slavery

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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.
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Benedetta Rossi is Professor of History at University College London (UCL). She taught at the University of Birmingham from 2012 to 2020, and has held visiting positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Humboldt University in Berlin, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Her research focuses on the global and African history of slavery, abolition, labour and migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project AFRAB (ERC-AdG-885418, 2020–2026) and Senior Researcher on the ERC-funded project LANGARCHIV.

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'Reconfiguring Slavery is an important book that provides rich insight into processes of emancipation and the legacies of slavery in West Africa. Most chapters draw heavily on the testimony of former slaves or slave descendants, which gives special liveliness to the difficult conceptual issues under consideration. The book has much to offer for comparisons between slavery in West Africa and in other world regions, in particular perhaps in Asian settings. Many chapters in the volume also shed light on the impact and reach of Western imperialism in Africa. Reconfiguring Slavery will find its readers mainly among scholars specializing in African studies and slave studies, but teachers of world history courses interested in Africa will also find the book rewarding and stimulating even though the chapters do not make for suitable readings in undergraduate college courses.'Claus K. Meyer, World History Connected

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