Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction Sources and methods
- 1 Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa
- 2 Christian missionaries on record
- 3 Early modern European-language sources on African slavery
- 4 African intellectual ideas in the age of legal slavery and the slave trade
- 5 Looking for slavery in colonial archives
- 6 Slave voices in African colonial courts
- 7 Understanding slavery in possession rituals
- 8 Yesterday and today
- Index
5 - Looking for slavery in colonial archives
French West Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2016
Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Book part
- Introduction Sources and methods
- 1 Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa
- 2 Christian missionaries on record
- 3 Early modern European-language sources on African slavery
- 4 African intellectual ideas in the age of legal slavery and the slave trade
- 5 Looking for slavery in colonial archives
- 6 Slave voices in African colonial courts
- 7 Understanding slavery in possession rituals
- 8 Yesterday and today
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 114 - 131Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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