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The African Slave Trade: A Revised and Expanded Edition

✍ Scribed by Basil Davidson


Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Year
1980
Tongue
English
Leaves
304
Category
Library

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✦ Table of Contents


Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: FACT AND FABLE
1. Before the Trade Began
2. The Old States of Africa
3. Similarities
4. Slaves and Slaving
5. Differences
PART TWO: THE YEARS OF TRIAL
1. At First a Trickle
2. Gold and Elephant’s Teeth
3. And Then a Flood
4. Battle for the Coast
5. The Trade Pays Off
6. Abolition
PART THREE: MANNER OF THE TRADE
1. How Many?
2. The System Installed
3. Rules and Customs
4. Attitudes and Opinions
5. Where Did They Come From?
6. Three Regions
PART FOUR: MANI-CONGO
1. Discovery
2. Royal Brothers
3. Congo: Ngola: Matamba
4. Law and Order
5. From Alliance to Invasion
6. Root of the Evil
PART FIVE: EAST COAST FORTUNES
1. A Riddle at Kilwa
2. Cities of the Seaboard
3. The Vital Contrast
4. In the Wake of the Storm
5. When You Pipe at Zanzibar ...
PART SIX: FRONTIER OF OPPORTUNITY
1. Like Nothing Else ...
2. The People of the Salt Water
3. β€˜Children of God’
4. Partners in Trade
5. Behind the Coast
6. Disaster at Benin
7. One Gun: One Slave
8. Asante: The New Battle for the Coast
9. The Partnership Cracks
10. Men like Ja Ja: The Last Phase
PART SEVEN: FOUR CENTURIES: A SUMMING UP
An End and a Beginning
A Note to this Edition
Reading Guide
Index


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