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Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate is well argued and grounded in written records and oral evidence. [T]he book offers a valuable historiographical contribution to the study of plantation slavery, precolonial African states, Islam, and West African history. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES / REVUE CANADIENNE DES ETUDES AFRICAINES *
[T]he book is a most valuable contribution to the literature on the economic history of slavery. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *
This is a comparative study and a quality addition to the historiography of slavery and its abolition in West Africa. .historians and researchers especially those with keen interest in slavery-related studies will find it very informative and inspiring. * AFRICAN STUDIES QUARTERLY *
Salau's is an excellent book - well written, carefully researched, and incisively argued. It should be widely read by historians of African and of comparative slavery. * American Historical Review *
Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Historical and Comparative Study presents a refreshingly new argument that privileges the role of political power, slaves' agency, and aristocratic politics over economic and social logics in birthing, sustaining, and destabilizing slave systems. This paradigm is especially compelling for polities such as the Sokoto caliphate, where the practice of slavery was integral to political transactions and to the process by which aristocrats earned and maintained status. Mohammed Bashir Salau's work blazes a new trail for the field. -- -- Moses Ochonu, Vanderbilt University
Book Information
ISBN 9781580469388
Author Mohammed Bashir Salau
Format Hardback
Page Count 246
Imprint University of Rochester Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g