Reconfiguring Slavery

Dr Benedetta Rossi is Lecturer in African Studies in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.

• ContentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPrefaceA note on Language1. Introduction: Rethinking Slavery in West Africa - Benedetta Rossi2. Slave descent and Social Status in Sahara and Sudan - Martin A. Klein3. African American psychologists, the atlantic Slave trade and Ghana: a History of the present - Tom McCaskie4. After abolition: Metaphors of Slavery in the political History of the Gambia - Alice Bellagamba5. Islamic patronage and republican emancipation: The Slaves of the Almaami in the Senegal river valley - Jean Schmitz6. Curse and Blessing: on post-slavery Modes of perception and agency in Benin - Christine Hardung7. Contemporary trajectories of Slavery in Haalpulaar Society (Mauritania) - Olivier Leservoisier8. Slavery and politics: Stigma, decentralisation and political representation in Niger and Benin - Eric Komlavi Hahonou9. Slavery and Migration: Social and physical Mobility in ader (Niger) - Benedetta Rossi10. Discourses on Slavery: reflections on forty years of research - Philip BurnhamGlossary of Foreign WordsIndex

Reviews'This stimulating collection for West African scholars provides an abundance of examples of the transformations in traditional forms of slavery covering the range of possibilities, from formerly subjugated groups that now have the upper hand over their former masters to situations where traditional forms of symbolic and financial domination still prevail.'