Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa

Author: Paul E. Lovejoy Series: Global Africa

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The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.

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The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.

The study explores the conceptual problems of studying slavery in Africa and the broader Atlantic world from a perspective that focuses on Africa and the historical context that accounts for this influence. Paul Lovejoy focuses on the parameters of the enforced migration of enslaved Africans, including the impact on civilian populations in Africa, constraints on migration, and the importance of women and children in the movement of people who were enslaved. The prevalence of slavery in Africa and the transformations of social and political formations of societies and political structures during the era of trans-Atlantic migration inform the book’s research. The analysis places Africa, specifically western Africa, at the center of historical change, not on the frontier or periphery of western Europe or the Americas, and provides a global perspective that reconsiders historical reconstruction of the Atlantic world that challenges the distortions of Eurocentrism and national histories.

Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa will be of interest to scholars and students of colonial history, African history, Diaspora Studies, the Black Atlantic and the history of slavery.

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Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor, Department of History, York University, and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History.

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Paul E. Lovejoy has researched and written on African history and African diaspora history for more than 30 years. This book brings together key four themes of his work, Conceptual Issues of Enslavement; Enforced Migration; Identity and Diaspora, and Biography and Slavery. The first explores the conceptual problems of studying slavery in Africa and the Atlantic world from the perspective of an "Africanist" perception of the topic. In the second section, Lovejoy examines the parameters of the enforced migration of enslaved Africans, including the impact on civilian populations in Africa, constraints on the migration, and the importance of women and children. The third section examines the question of identity of the enslaved population and the impact of identifiable groups of people on the development of the diaspora in both Africa and in the Americas. Finally, he looks at biography, focusing on the life stories of individuals caught up in the slave trade. Written by an eminent historian of Africa and the African diaspora, Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa is essential reading for students and scholars of African history, the African diaspora and the history of the slave trade.