Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa

by Martin Klein

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 heart of the study focuses on the period between 1876 and 1922, when a French army composed largely of slave soldiers took massive numbers of slaves in the interior,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521593247
• ISBN13: 9780521593243
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"