Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Historical and Comparative Study

by Mohammed Bashir Salau

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469388
• ISBN13: 9781580469388
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"