Slavery and colonial rule in French West Africa

Martin Klein's book is a history of slaves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in three former French colonies. It investigates the changing nature of local slavery over time, and the evolving French attitudes towards it, through the phases of trade, conquest and colonial rule. The he...

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1. Verfasser: Klein, Martin A. 1934- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1998
Schriftenreihe:African studies 94
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Slavery in the Western Sudan
  • Abolition and retreat, Senegal 1848-1876
  • Slavery, slave-trading and social revolution
  • Senegal after Brière
  • Conquest of the Sudan: Desbordes to Archinard
  • Senegal in the 1890s
  • The end of the conquest
  • The imposition of metropolitan priorities on slavery
  • With smoke and mirrors: slavery and the conquest of Guinea
  • The Banamba Exodus
  • French fears and the limits to an emancipation policy
  • Looking for the tracks. How they did it
  • After the war: renegotiating social relations
  • A question of honor