Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in...

The International Journal of African Historical Studies;  January 1, 2008 ;     504 words ......Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate. By Mary Wren Bivins. Social History...significant body of literature on the Sokoto Caliphate, Bivins notes that there is no scholarship...Hausa women in the emergence of the Sokoto caliphate. The book is a social history of ...

THE POLITICS OF HISTORY: THE LEGACY OF THE SOKOTO CALIPHATE IN NIGERIA.

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  November 1, 2000 ;     128 words ......the Islamic/political legacy of the nineteenth-century Sokoto Caliphate. The legacy of this Islamic state has dramatically influenced...subsequent events that stemmed from this activity. The Sokoto Caliphate a model of government in northern Nigeria was in fact problematic...

War on the Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under...

Journal of World History;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Savannah: The Military Collapse of the Sokoto Caliphate under the Invasion of the British...chronicling the British conquest of the Sokoto Caliphate of Northern Nigeria, Risto Marjomaa...dawn of the twentieth century, the Sokoto Caliphate of Northern Nigeria was the largest...

Paradoxes of Power: The "Mamluks" and Male Royal Slavery in the Sokoto...

The International Journal of African Historical Studies;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Mamluks" and Male Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1804-1903. By Sean Stilwell...highlights an important facet of slavery that has long been ignored...the debate on male royal slavery, the same way the works of...much an integral part of slavery as women slaves were. Apart...

Racial slavery in the New World was not accidental BOOKS & IDEAS

International Herald Tribune;  May 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ......05-13-2006 Inhuman BondageThe Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New WorldBy David Brion Davis440...so long ago that few Americans spoke of slavery, least of all historians. Except at a...discussion of the Civil War, but even then slavery made only a brief appearance since everyone...

Slavery's stain still with us

Daily Breeze;  October 7, 2002 ;     523 words ...Slavery's stain still with us As the real deal, the idea of reparations for America's chattel slavery that ended morethan a century ago promises more problems...hustle -- and for some, it is just that -- argues that slavery was so far back in the long ago that no living victims...

The Metaphor of Slavery in the Writings of the Early Church: From the New...

Journal of Biblical Literature;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...The Metaphor of Slavery in the Writings of the Early Church...Christ have received not a spirit of slavery but rather a spirit of adoption as sons...Paul understands marriage as a form of slavery, and that Rom 1:1 is evidence that when...

The politics of history: the legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate in Nigeria.

Journal of Asian and African Studies;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......the Islamic/political legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate and the ways in which this legacy...show that while the legacy of the Sokoto Caliphate was a constructive (though hotly debated...post-1966 era, the relevance of the Sokoto Caliphate to politics within Nigeria was increasingly...

Teaching Slavery: Overcoming Artificial Barriers to Past, Present.(Brief...

Black Issues in Higher Education;  May 24, 2001 ;     582 words ......discussions of reparations to African Americans for slavery prompted me to reflect on the ways I have been taught about slavery in graduate school. My educational experiences with the study of slavery have varied according to the professor s chosen...

slavery

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      400 words ...slavery An institutional system of bondage practiced in many societies and in a variety of forms. In ancient societies, slavery had a strong political component and was frequently a consequence...social roles, though without rights. Most research into slavery emphasizes its economic role: slavery was ...

Emancipation perturbation: the mass media wrestle with slavery.(Brief...

U.S. News & World Report;  October 19, 1998 ;     652 words ...Slavery is stepping into the spotlight. This Friday marks the release...mark a bold new approach in popular-culture depictions of slavery. Instead of showing what happened, they seek to show what...their owners--were feeling. The 1998 wave of mass media slavery projects has been a long time coming, ...

REMOVING BLINDERS ABOUT SLAVERY WILL HELP US SEE BRIGHTER...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  October 23, 1998 ;     700+ words ......for Oprah Winfrey to do a movie about slavery. She felt she needed to live it, too...other African Americans of my generation, slavery always has been an intriguing mystery...that my great-grandparents were born in slavery, that they worked cotton fields in Alabama...

Slavery and the Content of History

Black Renaissance;  December 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ...SLAVERY AND THE CONTENT OF HISTORY As we move rapidly into the...celebration of the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Several conferences and festivals on the subject have...demands for an apology from those countries that took part in slavery and for financial and/or material compensation as ...

Slavery Knows No Race; New non-fiction book reveals the dark truth of...

M2 Presswire;  February 5, 2003 ;     440 words ......PRESSWIRE-5 February 2003-1stBooks Library: Slavery Knows No Race; New non-fiction book reveals the dark truth of slavery(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE...Railroad. Uncle Tom's Cabin. The history of slavery in the United States has always centered...

Malveaux At Large: Why Is There No Slavery Museum?

Sun Reporter, The;  February 23, 1994 ;     700+ words ......02-23-1994 Malveaux at Large: Why Is There No Slavery Museum?. Why is there no museum, monument, or memorial to slavery in our nation's capital. Just about everything...Americans, that's how they'd like to keep slavery -- part of our invisible past. White Americans...