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African Studies Series 7 dental, Oriental,and African Slave Trades Patrick Manning egegae Sa NN - ee ZS — & t HT i321 .Ma4 1990 Manning, Fatrick, 19741— Slavery and African life SLAVERY AND AFRICAN LIFE AFRICAN STUDIES SERIES 67 GENERAL EDITOR J.M. Lonsdale, Lecturer in History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ADVISORY EDITORS J.D. Y. Peel, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, with special reference to Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London John Sender, Faculty of Economics and Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge Published in collaboration with THE AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE, CAMBRIDGE CRAIOMVLEELRREI GCEA N American River College Library 4700 Celiege Oak Drive Sacraments, California 95841 For a list of other books in this series see page 235 SLAVERY AND AFRICAN LIFE Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades PATRICK MANNING The right of the University of Cambridge to print and sell all manner of books was granted by Henry VIII in 1534. The University has printed and published continuously since 1584. ee = CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE NEW YORK PORT CHESTER MELBOURNE SYDNEY Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1990 First published 1990 Reprinted 1991 Printed in Great Britain by Redwood Press Limited, Melksham, Wiltshire British Library cataloguing in publication data Manning, Patrick Slavery and African life: occidental, oriental and African slave trades. — (African studies series; 67). 1. Africa. Social conditions. Effects of slave trade, 1450-1899 I. Title II. Series 960.22 Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data Manning, Patrick, 1941- Slavery and African life: occidental, oriental and African slave trades/Patrick Manning. je); cm. — (African studies series: 67) Bibliography. ISBN 0 521 34396 8 — ISBN 0 521 34867-6 (paperback) 1. Slave-trade — Africa. Sub-Saharan — History. 2. Slavery — Africa. Sub-Saharan — History. I. Title. II. Series. HT1321.M36 1990 380.1'44'0967 — dc20 89-34125 CIP ISBN 0 521 34396 8 hard covers ISBN 0 521 34867 6 paperback CE To Marjorie Murphy Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/slaveryafricanliO067mann Contents List of plates page Vill List of figures ix List of maps x Acknowledgements Xl Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery 1 The political economy of slavery in Africa (2 Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 Slavery and the African population: a demographic model The quantitative impact oft he slave trade, 1700-1900 The economics and morality of slave supply Patterns of slave life ( 110 Transformations of slavery and society, 1650-1900 126 The end of slavery 149 The world and Africa 168 Appendix I: Slave prices Dey, Appendix2 :T he demographic simulation 179 Notes 182 Bibliography 212 Index 2a Vil Plates 8.1 ‘“Am I not a Man and a Brother?” (jasperware medal- lion, 1787). Courtesy of the Wedgwood Museum, Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent page 152 8.2 Partial plan of the ship Brookes (copper engraving by James Phillips, 1789). Courtesy of Wilberforce House and Georgian Houses, Kingston-upon-Hull 153 8.3 “Gang of captives met at Mbame’s on their way to Tette,” from David and Charles Livingstone, Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries (London and New York, 1865) 158 Vili
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