| Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Historical and Comparative Study Contributor(s): Salau, Mohammed Bashir (Author) |
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ISBN: 1580469388 ISBN-13: 9781580469388 Publisher: University of Rochester Press OUR PRICE: $99.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - West - Social Science | Slavery - Religion | Islam - History |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| LCCN: 2018031119 |
| Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.18 lbs) 246 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - West Africa - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A large-scale study of plantation slavery in West Africa with a focus on the nineteenth-century Sokoto caliphate, this book draws on diverse sources including oral testimony, Arabic material, and extant scholarly works about the caliphal state. Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Historical and Comparative Study offers new views on various fundamental issues including the definition of blackness in the Sokoto caliphate, the meaning of theterm "plantation," the significance of plantation slavery in the caliphal state, and the role of slavery in the context of African states. Author Mohammed Bashir Salau analyzes key themes in the history of plantation slavery, especially plantation management and the acquisition, treatment, and control of slaves. Building on this analysis, Salau points to previously unknown ways in which the caliphal state prevented the development of serfdom, arguing that while social and economic factors played a role in the rise of slavery in the Sokoto caliphate, conscious political choice was the major factor for the rise and maintenance of plantation slavery. This study will be of major interest to students and scholars of slavery in Africa in general and in the Sokoto Caliphate in particular; in addition, through its comparative discussion it contributes to the literature on second slavery. Mohammed Bashir Salau is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Mississippi. |