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Article: Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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by Lamin Sanneh. Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1999. 291 pp. $33.00 U.S. (cloth), $18.95 U.S. (paper).
Lamin Sanneh's Abolitionist Abroad is a study of the development of the anti-slavery ideology in Europe and America, its export to Africa, and the role played by Africans in the anti-slavery crusade.
The book joins the debate about the development of slavery in Africa, especially the development of ethnic/racial consciousness in the Islamic and European worlds such that a sense of the "other" and the enslavement of the other/outsider were developed. Thus color and unbelief serve as legitimate reasons for enslavement. This was a ...