Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories

by Benedetta Rossi

Book Overview

Reconfiguring Slavery focuses on the range of trajectories followed by slavery as an institution since the various abolitions of the nineteenth century. It also considers the continuing and multi-faceted strategies that descendants of both owners and slaves have developed to make what use they can of their forebears' social positions, or to distance themselves from them. Reconfiguring Slavery contains both anthropological and historical contributions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781383057
• ISBN13: 9781781383056
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 256 Pages