History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement

• Enslavement and culture. Part 1 Enslavement: the Mascarene-bound slave trade; moralities of enslavement; strategies in a slaving economy. Part 2 Culture: popular culture politics 1790-1809; traditions and historical memory, 1809-1822; enslavement, social memory, and identity transformation in the African diaspora.

This is an important book. It should be required reading for anyone interested in what happened to African societies which were engaged in the slave trade. It goes without saying that it will also be read with interest by specialists in Madagascar, known in the trade as malgachisants.