Slavery in Africa and the Caribbean

Olatunji Ojo is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Brock University, St. Catherine's, Canada. Nadine Hunt teaches African History at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Tables – vii
Maps – viii
Illustrations – ix
Acknowledgements – x
Notes on Contributors – xi
Introduction (Nadine Hunt and Olatunji Ojio) – 1
1. Ethnicity and Identity at the Niger-Benue Confluence during the Nineteenth Century Nupe Jihad (Femi James Kolapo) – 9
2. Slave Trading in Kano Emirate (Mohammed Bashir Salau) – 38
3. Concubinage and Slavery in Benguela, c. 1750-1850 (Mariana P. Candido) – 65
4. Correspondence of the Lagos Slave Trade, 1848-1850 (Olatunji Ojo) – 85
5. The Metamorphosis of Slavery in Colonial Mombassa, 1907-1963 (Feisal Farah) – 121
6. Economy, Politics, and the Early Formation of a Cultural Identity in British Virgin Islands’ Slave Society (Katherine A. Smith) – 144
7. Remembering Africans in Diaspora: Robert Wedderburn’s ‘Freedome Narrative’ (Nadine Hunt) – 175
Bibliography – 199
Index – 221