Article: Slavery, Commerce and Production in the Sokoto Caliphate of West Africa

HISTORY Paul E. Lovejoy. Slavery, Commerce and Production in the Sokoto Caliphate of West Africa. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2005. xiii +425 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

It is near impossible to discuss the theme of slavery in West Africa without acknowledging the contributions of Paul Lovejoy. This latest work by Lovejoy is a collection of some of his major essays on slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate, the largest state in nineteenth-century sub-Saharan Africa.

In these essays Lovejoy focuses on the relationship of slavery to trade, production, and development in the Sokoto Caliphate and central Sudan generally in the nineteenth ...

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