Benedetta Rossi is Professor of History at University College London (UCL). She has published extensively on the African and global history of slavery, including From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000 (Cambridge, 2015) and has coordinated major international research projects and collaborations on these topics.

• List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The problem of African slavery in the age of abolition; 2. Changing ethics of slavery in nineteenth-century Africa; 3. Struggles over slavery and struggles over power; 4. The labour question, anti-colonial resistance, and the idea of slavery before and after independence; 5. Identity, abolitionism, and memory in the twenty-first century; Appendix: note on concepts, terminology, and language; Index; Endnotes.

Benedetta Rossi is Professor of History at University College London (UCL). She has published extensively on the African and global history of slavery, including From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000 (Cambridge, 2015) and has coordinated major international research projects and collaborations on these topics.

• List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The problem of African slavery in the age of abolition; 2. Changing ethics of slavery in nineteenth-century Africa; 3. Struggles over slavery and struggles over power; 4. The labour question, anti-colonial resistance, and the idea of slavery before and after independence; 5. Identity, abolitionism, and memory in the twenty-first century; Appendix: note on concepts, terminology, and language; Index; Endnotes.

Benedetta Rossi is Professor of History at University College London (UCL). She has published extensively on the African and global history of slavery, including From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000 (Cambridge, 2015) and has coordinated major international research projects and collaborations on these topics.

• List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The problem of African slavery in the age of abolition; 2. Changing ethics of slavery in nineteenth-century Africa; 3. Struggles over slavery and struggles over power; 4. The labour question, anti-colonial resistance, and the idea of slavery before and after independence; 5. Identity, abolitionism, and memory in the twenty-first century; Appendix: note on concepts, terminology, and language; Index; Endnotes.