Women and slavery in Africa / edited by Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein.
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Madison, Wis. :
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1983.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Suzanne Miers
- Introduction : Women's importance in African slave systems / Clair C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein
- Part I. Demographic and theoretical perspectives
- African women in the Atlantic slave trade / Herbert S. Klein
- Sexual demography : the impact of the slave trade on family structure / John Thornton
- Female slavery / Claude Meillassoux
- Women in slavery in the Western Sudan / Martin A. Klein
- Appendix: The economics of the slave menage
- Part II. Production and reproduction
- Sustaining the system : trading towns along the Middle Zaire / Robert Harms
- Slavery and reproductive labor in Mombasa / Margaret Strobel
- The Songhay-Zarma female slave : relations of production and ideological status / Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
- Women in slavery among the Mangbetu c. 1800-1910 / Curtis A. Keim
- Slave wives, free sisters : Bakongo women and slavery c. 1700-1850 / Susan Herlin Broadhead
- Part III. The slave experience : case histories
- The story of Swema : female vulnerability in nineteenth-century East Africa / Edward A. Alpers
- Appendix: A note on Anlo (Ewe) slavery and the history of a slave / G.K. Nukunya
- Bwanikwa: consciousness and protest among slave women in Central Africa, 1886-1911 / Marcia Wright
- Part IV. Women as slave owners, users, and traders
- Slaves, slave owners, and slave dealers : Sherbro Coast and Hinterland / Carol P. MacCormack
- A Nhara of the Guinea-Bissau region : Mae Aurelia Correia / George E. Brooks
- Women slavers of Guinea-Conakry / Bruce L. Mouser
- Servitude and worldly success in the Palace of Dahomey / Edna G. Bay.