The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
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This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades. Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, the book supports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.
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In the precolonial era, armed bandits inhabited trade routes and constituted major threats to caravan trading, tourism, political stability, and territorial integrity of precolonial states and societies in the region.
“Amidst these, armed bandits inhabited these routes, and constituted major threats to caravan trading, tourism, political stability, and territorial integrity of the precolonial states and societies in the region.”
From Forces of Terror: Armed Banditry and Insecurity in North-west Nigeria (2023) · cites this paper as [35]
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Schuenemann, V. J., Peltzer, A., Welte, B., van Pelt, W. P., Molak, M., Wang, C.-C., Furtwängler, A., Urban, C., Reiter, E., Nieselt, K., et al. (2017) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms15694 · Cited by 201 · see citing works
Forces of Terror: Armed Banditry and Insecurity in North-west Nigeria
Ojo, J. S., Oyewole, S., & Aina, F. (2023) · Democracy and Security · doi:10.1080/17419166.2023.2164924 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
- Authors
- Wright, J.
- Corresponding author
- Wright, John
- Venue
- Routledge eBooks
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2007-04-03
- OpenAlex
- W571618665
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 5.26
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › African Studies and Geopolitics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › African history and culture studies
- Keywords
- trans-Saharan slave trade, African slavery, internal slave trade, slave markets, history of slavery
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