A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region’s rol

A history of slavery during the 19th and 20th centuries in three former French colonies.

Annotation Explores in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlanti

A fascinating collection that advances a renewed conceptual framework for understanding slavery in West Africa today: instead of retracing the end of West Afric

Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630–1860 by Angus Dalrymple-Smith offers a new interpretation of the move from slave exports to ‘legiti