Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Historical and Comparative Study

by Mohammed Bashir Salau

A work of synthesis on plantation slavery in nineteenth century Sokoto caliphate, engaging with major debates on internal African slavery, on the meaning of the term "plantation," and on comparative slavery

A large-scale study of plantation slavery in West Africa with a focus on the nineteenth-century Sokoto caliphate, this book draws on diverse sources including oral testimony, Arabic material, and extant scholarly works about the caliphal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469388
• ISBN13: 9781580469388
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"