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Women and Slavery in Africa is simply one of the best books to appear in the past five years.... [The editors] are to be congratulated for having produced a lively, important, and provocative volume.
—African Economic History

"Most slaves in sub-Saharan African were women." With that introductory and revolutionary sentence Robertson and Klein redefined much of the social and economic history of Africa.

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Contents

Contents:
Introduction
Demographic and Theoretical Perspectives
African Women in the Atlantic Slave Trade, Herbert S. Klein
Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave Trade on Family Structure, John Thornton
Female Slavery, Claude Meillassoux
Women in Slavery in the Western Sudan, Martin A. Klein
Production and Reproduction
Sustaining the System: Trading Towns along the Middle Zaire, Robert Harms
The Songhay-Zarma Female Slave, J.-P. Olivier de Sardan
Women in Slavery among the Mangbetu, Curtin A. Keim
Slave Wives, Free Sisters, Susan Herlin Broadhead
The Slave Experience: Case Histories The Story of Swema, Edward A. Alpers
Post Proclamation Slavery in Accra, Claire C. Robertson
Bwanikwa: Consciousness and Protest among Slave Women, Marcia Wright
Women as Slave Owners, Users, & Traders
Slaves, Slave Owners, and Slave Dealers, Carol P. MacCormack
A Nhara of the Guinea-Bissau Region, George E. Brooks
Women Slavers of Guina-Conakry, Bruce L. Mouser
Servitude and Worldly Success in the Palace of Dahomey, Edna G. Bay