Slave Descent and Social Status in Sahara and Sudan
Slave Descent and Social Status in Sahara and Sudan
This chapter, which examines the historical evolution of emancipation in West Africa, focusing on the transformation of slave status in Sahara and Sudan since the late nineteenth century, first provides an overview of resistance to slavery in Africa and domestic slavery in colonial West Africa. It then considers how change occurred in two separate ideological systems: the colonial and the Islamic. Incomes from cash cropping or wage labour enabled slaves to negotiate a new position, but status distinctions persisted unless the dominant codes of honour were also changed to allow slave descendants to assume roles that they were not previously allowed to occupy.
Keywords: West Africa, emancipation, slavery, Sahara, Sudan, cash cropping, wage labour, slaves, slave status, slave descendants
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