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RECONFIGURING SLAVERY IN WEST AFRICA - Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories, 2nd edition. Edited by Benedetta Rossi. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. Pp. 256. £85.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-846-31199-4); £19.99, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-781-38305-6); £19.99 e-book (ISBN: 978-1-846-31564-0).

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Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories, 2nd edition. Edited by Benedetta Rossi. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016. Pp. 256. £85.00, hardcover (ISBN: 978-1-846-31199-4); £19.99, paperback (ISBN: 978-1-781-38305-6); £19.99 e-book (ISBN: 978-1-846-31564-0).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2020

Russell Stevenson
Russell Stevenson*
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Michigan State University
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West Africaslaveryabolitionregional
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The Journal of African History , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , July 2020 , pp. 288 - 291
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2 B. Holsey, Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana (Chicago, 2008), 122–3. See also S. Diouf, Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies (Athens, OH, 2003), xiv.

3 S. Miers and I. Kopytoff, Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives (Madison, 1977); G. U. Nwokeji, The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra: An African Society in the Atlantic World (Cambridge, 2010); A. A. Perbi, A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana: From the 15th to the 19th Centuries (Accra, 2004); G. Midlo-Hall, Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Chapel Hill, NC, 2007); W. Hawthorne, From Africa to Brazil: Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830 (Cambridge, 2010).

4 S. Drescher, Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (Cambridge, 2009).

5 H. B. Lovejoy et al., The Liberated Africans Project, (https://liberatedafricans.org).

6 A. Brivio, ‘“I am a slave not a wife”: slave women in post-proclamation Gold Coast (Ghana)’, Gender & History, 29:1 (2017), 31–47; C. Whyte, ‘“Everyone knows that laws bring the greatest benefits to mankind”: the global and local origins of anti-slavery in Abyssinia, 1880–1942’, Slavery & Abolition, 35:4 (2014), 652–69; A. McDougall, ‘Colonial labour, Tawdenni and “l'enfer du sel”: the struggle from slave to free labour in a Saharan salt mine’, Labor History, 58:2 (2017), 185–200.