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Breaking the chain : slavery, bondage and emancipation in Africa and Asia
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ISBN: 0299137546 Year: 1993 Publisher: Madison University of Wisconsin Press

Slow death for slavery : the course of abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
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ISBN: 0521374693 052144702X 051156306X 9780511563065 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines the gradual decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave societies in modern history. The authors have written a thoughtful and provocative book which raises doubts over the moral legitimacy of both the Sokoto Caliphate and the colonial state. They chart the development of British colonial policy towards resolving the dilemma of slavery and how to end it.

Slavery and African life : occidental, oriental, and African slave trades.
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ISBN: 0521343968 0521348676 9780521348676 Year: 1993 Volume: 67 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

Land, city and trade in the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 0860783804 Year: 1993 Volume: CS408 Publisher: Aldershot : Variorum,


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Strukturen der Grundherrschaft im frühen Mittelalter
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ISBN: 3525356285 9783525356289 Year: 1993 Volume: 92 Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,

Statecraft and political economy on the Taiwan frontier 1600-1800
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ISBN: 0804720665 Year: 1993 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.): Stanford university press

Commoners : common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820
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ISBN: 0521440548 0521567742 0511522746 9780521440547 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is one of the most important and original contributions to English rural history to be published in the past generation. Winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society in 1994, Commoners challenges the view that England had no peasantry or that it had disappeared before industrialization: rather it shows that common rights and petty landholding shaped social relations in English villages, and that their loss at enclosure sharpened social antagonisms and imprinted on popular culture a pervasive sense of loss.

West African slavery and Atlantic commerce : the Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860
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ISBN: 0521440831 0521534526 0511572786 9780521440837 9780511572784 9780521534529 Year: 1993 Volume: 77 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Senegal river valley in the eighteenth century. He shows that the growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within West Africa. Slaves worked as seamen in the river and coasting trades, produced surplus grain to feed slaves in transit, and sometimes came to hold pivotal positions in the political structure of the coastal kingdoms of Senegambia. This local slave system had far-reaching consequences, leading to religious protest and slave rebellions. The changes in agricultural production fostered an ecological crisis.

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