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Title: Slavery and African Life : Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades by Patrick Manning ISBN: 0-521-34867-6 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Slavery's Impact on Africa
Comment: Have you ever wondered about the impact of slavery on Africa or how slavery contributed to the making of our contemporary world? Or have you ever thought about how the world should come to terms with the legacy of African enslavement? Then Pat Manning's text is a good place to start. The text graphically shows the varying demographic impact of enslavement on different regions and peoples of the continent. It illustrates how the forced emigration of Africans adversely affected economies, politics, societies and cultures in different parts of Africa. Manning forceful restates Eric Williams' contention that slavery did lead to the development of capitalism - within the context of the larger Atlantic economy rather than the narrow Caribbean economy. For me, Manning is at his best when he discusses how the victims and beneficiaries of African enslavement can come to terms with the legacy of that tragedy. The main criticism of the text is the excessive (and sometimes redundant) quantative simulations and graphs that it contains. Nonetheless, it is a good starting point for students, scholars and general readers interested in the subject of slavery in Africa.
Rating: 4
Summary: Insightful yet boring
Comment: This book is insightful and is based on evidence, but unlike most history novels it contains many diagrams, maps and graphs that complicate Manning's thesis, rather than clarifying it. The book is repetitive and dry while at the same time introducing new ideas. This book taught me about African culture and the economics behind the worldwide African slave trade, but it did so in an impersonal manner; it was general, not leaning on specific cases.
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Title: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 by John Thornton ISBN: 0521627249 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Transformations in Slavery : A History of Slavery in Africa by Paul E. Lovejoy ISBN: 0521784301 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade by Boubacar Barry ISBN: 0521597609 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Ibn Battuta in Black Africa (World History) by Ibn Battuta, Said Hamdun, Noel King ISBN: 1558760881 Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert Harms ISBN: 0465028721 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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