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020			_a9780197264782 (hardcover)
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245	0	0	_aSlavery in Africa : _barchaeology and memory / _cedited by Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bPublished for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, _c2011.
264			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bPublished for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, _c2011.
300			_axv, 468 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aProceedings of the British Academy ; 168
500			_aBased on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 24-25, 2007.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe role and consequences of slavery in the history of Africa have been brought to the fore recently in historical, anthropological and archaeological research. Public remembrances - such as Abolition 2007 in Great Britain, which marked the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and which this volume also commemorates - have also stimulated considerable interest. There is a growing realisation that enslavement, whether as part of a sliding scale of 'rights in persons' or due to acts of violence, has a history on the African continent that extends back in time long before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The nature of such enslavement is obscured by the lack of resolution in historical sources before the middle of the second millennium AD. Ground-breaking archaeological research is now building models for approaching slave labour systems via collaboration with historians and the critical scrutiny of historical data. Generally, such new research focuses at the landscape scale; rather than attempting to find physical evidence of slavery per se, it assesses the settlement systems of slavery-based economies, and the depopulation and abandonment which followed from wars of enslavement. The potential utility of this work is considerable, and is ultimately the only means whereby researchers will be able to resolve the many 'chicken-or-egg' issues which beset the historical study of slavery in Africa. Recent decades have also witnessed an increase in attempts to commemorate and memorialise slavery on the African continent, through a combination of museum displays, historic site interpretation and public history projects. Unfortunately, there are still very few critical discussions of relevant case studies of this kind of public archaeology across the continent, and few examples of good practice. This volume addresses this lack by offering a selection of papers on recent archaeological studies of slavery, slave resistance and their contemporary commemoration, alongside archaeological assessments of the economic, environmental and political consequences of slave trading in a variety of historical and geographical settings.
650		0	_aSlavery _zAfrica _xHistory. _9204425
650		0	_aSlave rebellions _zAfrica _xHistory. _9204426
650		0	_aSlave trade _zAfrica _xHistory. _9204427
650		0	_aSlave trade _xPolitical aspects _zAfrica _xHistory. _9204428
650		0	_aSlave trade _xEconomic aspects _zAfrica _xHistory. _9204429
650		0	_aSlave trade _xEnvironmental aspects _zAfrica _xHistory. _9204430
651		7	_aAfrica. _2fast _9204431
700	1		_aLane, Paul _q(Paul J.) _eeditor _9204432
700	1		_aMacDonald, Kevin C. _eeditor _9204433
710	2		_aBritish Academy _eissuing body _9204434
830		0	_aProceedings of the British Academy ; 168 _9204435
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