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  1. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution, by Toby Green
  2. Jihad and the Era of the Second Slavery
  3. Before Middle Passage: Translated Portuguese Manuscripts of Atlantic Slave Trading from West Africa to Iberian Territories, 1513–1526, edited by Trevor P. Hall
  4. West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807–1844, written by Manuel Barcia
  5. African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade. Ed. by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, [and] Martin A. Klein. With the ass. of Carolyn Brown. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.]2013 xxii, 563 pp. Ill. Maps. £65.00.
  6. Maintaining Network Boundaries: Islamic Law and Commerce from Sahara to Guinea Shores
  7. PAWNSHIP, DEBT, AND ‘FREEDOM’ IN ATLANTIC AFRICA DURING THE ERA OF THE SLAVE TRADE: A REASSESSMENT
  8. Ana Lucia Araujo, Mariana P. Candido & Paul E. Lovejoy (eds.)Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2011. 297 + xii pp. (Paper US$29.95)
  9. An Index to the Slavery and Slave Trade Enquiry: The British Parliamentary House of Commons Sessional Papers, 1788-1792
  10. CHILDHOOD AND SERVITUDE - Child Slaves in the Modern World. Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2011. Pp. vi+281. $49.95, hardback (isbn: 978-0-8214-1958-8); $24.95, paperback (
  11. A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
  12. Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa – What's in a Name?
  13. Terence Walz and Kenneth M. Cuno (eds): Race and Slavery in the Middle East: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean. xiv, 264 pp. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press,...
  14. Preface
  15. Preface to the Third Edition
  16. Transformations in Slavery
  17. Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures
  18. Children in slavery through the ages - Edited by Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Josephe C. Miller
  19. BEHNAZ A. MIRZAI, ISMAEL MUSAH MONTANA and PAUL E. LOVEJOY (eds), Slavery, Islam and Diaspora. Trenton NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press (pb £24.99 – 978 1 59221 705 2). 2009, 336 pp.
  20. ‘Freedom Narratives’ of Transatlantic Slavery
  21. The Diary of Antera Duke: An Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader (review)
  22. Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories
  23. AFRICAN HISTORY AND THE DISPERSAL OF AFRICAN PEOPLES - The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture. By Patrick Manning. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Pp. xxii+394. £19.95/29.95, hardback (isbn978-0-231-14470-4); £17/$24.50, ...
  24. Circulation and Slavery's Atlantic Locations (review ofAfrica and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History, ed. Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David V. Trotman)
  25. Extending the Frontiers of Transatlantic Slavery, Partially
  26. Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic. By James Sidbury (New York, Oxford University Press, 2007) 291 pp. $29.95 cloth $19.95 paper
  27. Philip D. Curtin (1922–2009)
  28. The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States. By Laird W. Bergad (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007) 314 pp. $80.00 cloth $22.99 paper; Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives. By Stanley L. ...
  29. 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.
  30. Robin Law and Paul Lovejoy, eds. The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America. Revised and expanded second edition. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2007. xix + 278 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Not...
  31. Issues of Motivation – Vassa/Equiano and Carretta's Critique of the Evidence
  32. Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African
  33. A Troublesome Commerce: The Transformation of the Interstate Slave Trade. By Robert H. Gudmestad (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2003) 246 pp. $62.95 cloth $22.95 paper
  34. The children of slavery – the transatlantic phase
  35. EXPLORING AND POPULARIZING AFRICAN HISTORY The Power of African Cultures. By TOYIN FALOLA. Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2003. Pp. xiii+354. $75/£50 (ISBN 1-58046-139-5).
  36. BOOK REVIEW: Curto, Jos� C., and Paul E. Lovejoy, eds. ENSLAVING CONNECTIONS: CHANGING CULTURES OF AFRICA AND BRAZIL DURING THE ERA OF SLAVERY. Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2004.
  37. Construction of Identity: Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa?
  38. The urban background of Enslaved Muslims in the Americas
  39. AN ATLANTIC ODYSSEY FROM OLD CALABAR The Two Princes of Calabar: An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey. By RANDY J. SPARKS. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 189. £14.95 (ISBN 0-674-01312-3).
  40. SLOW DEATH; STILL ALIVE Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem. By SUZANNE MIERS. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press, 2003. Pp. xx+503. No price given (ISBN 0-7591-0339-9); paperback (ISBN 0-7591-0...
  41. Enslaving Connections, Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil During the Era of Slavery. Edited by Jose C. Curto and Paul E. Lovejoy. Humanity Books, New York, 2004, 326 pp. ISBN 1591021537.
  42. ‘THIS HORRID HOLE’: ROYAL AUTHORITY, COMMERCE AND CREDIT AT BONNY, 1690–1840
  43. Slavery and Emancipation (review)
  44. Peter Haenger, Slaves and Slave Holders on the Gold Coast: towards an understanding of social bondage in West Africa, ed. J. J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy, trans. Christina Handford. Basle: Schlettwein, 2000, 213 pp., Sfr 48.00, ISBN: 3 908193 04 4.
  45. Islam, slavery, and political transformation in West Africa : constraints on the trans-Atlantic slave trade
  46. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
  47. The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America
  48. Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa
  49. Book Review: Haenger, Peter. Edited by J. J. Shaffer and Paul E. Lovejoy. SLAVES AND SLAVEHOLDERS ON THE GOLD COAST: TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL BONDAGE IN WEST AFRICA. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing, 2000.
  50. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
  51. The Oral History of Royal Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: An Interview with Sallama Dako
  52. Slaves and Slave Holders on the Gold Coast: Towards an Understanding of Social Bondage in West Africa
  53. Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco
  54. Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830. By Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1998) 285 pp. $49.95 cloth $16.95 paper
  55. FRANCO-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN THE SAHARA La légende noire de la Sanûsiyya: Une confrérie musulmane saharienne sous le regard français, 1840–1930. 2 vols. Par JEAN-LOUIS TRIAUD. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sc...
  56. Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History: The Institutional Foundations of the Old Calabar Slave Trade
  57. Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  58. Borgu in the Atlantic Slave Trade
  59. :Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 . By Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood ( Chapel Hill , University of North Carolina Press , 1998 ) 285 pp. $49.95 cloth $16.95 paper
  60. Pawnship in Africa. Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective
  61. PAUL E. LOVEJOY and JAN S. HOGENDORN, Slow Death to Slavery. The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936. Cambridge University Press, 1993, XVII + 391 pp. £40.00.
  62. The Frontier States of Western Yorubaland, 1600–1889. By BIODUN ADEDIRAN. Ibadan: Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique, 1994. Pp. x + 248. No price given (ISBN 978-2015-25-3).
  63. A Modern Economic History of Africa. Volume I. The Nineteenth Century
  64. The Sokoto Caliphate and the European Powers, 1890-1907
  65. Pawnship in Africa: Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective
  66. Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia
  67. Editing Nineteenth-Century Intelligence Reports on the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno, or the Delights of a Collaborative Approach
  68. Review: Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity, by Alison Taubman, Anthony Tibbles, Ivor Heal Design Ltd., Femi Biko, Alissandra Cummins, Mary E. Modupe Kolawole, Preston King, Paul Lovejoy, Patrick Manning, Jennifer Morgan, Edward Reynold...
  69. Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology.
  70. Consuming Habits: Drugs in History and Anthropology.
  71. Book Review Consuming Habits: Drugs in history and anthropology Edited by Jordan Goodman, Paul E. Lovejoy, and Andrew Sherratt. 244 pp. New York, Routledge, 1995. $49.95. 0-415-09039-3
  72. Jordan Goodman, Paul E Lovejoy and Andrew Sherratt (eds), Consuming habits: drugs in history and anthropology, London and New York, Routledge, 1995, pp. xii, 244, £35.00 (0-415-09039-3).
  73. Pawnship in Africa: Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective
  74. Slavery and Its Abolition in French West Africa: The Official Reports of G. Poulet, E. Roume, and G. Deherme
  75. Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
  76. Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
  77. Debt Bondage - Pawnship in Africa: Debt Bondage in Historical Perspective. Edited by Toyin Falola and Paul Lovejoy. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. Pp. 341. £37 (ISBN 0-8133-8457-5).
  78. Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn, Slow Death of Slavery: the course of abolition in northern Nigeria, 1897–1936. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 391 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0 521 37469 3.
  79. British Abolition and its Impact on Slave Prices Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa, 1783–1850
  80. Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897- 1936.
  81. Competing Markets for Male and Female Slaves: Prices in the Interior of West Africa, 1780-1850
  82. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680
  83. Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
  84. Africa in America: Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
  85. Background to rebellion: The origins of Muslim slaves in Bahia
  86. Lugard: the Devious Years - Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897–1936. By Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 391. £45 (ISBN 0-521-17609-7); £16.95, paperbac...
  87. White Dreams, Black Africa: The Antislavery Expedition to the River Niger 1841-1842
  88. 1991. The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550-1750: The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on an African Society
  89. Slow Death for Slavery
  90. Preface
  91. The debate on legal-status abolition
  92. Emancipation and the law
  93. Upholding proprietary rights to land
  94. The colonial economy and the slaves
  95. The persistence of concubinage
  96. Legal-status abolition: the final phase
  97. Notes
  98. Glossary
  99. Bibliography
  100. Title in the series
  101. Slavery and the British conquest of Northern Nigeria
  102. Fugitive slaves and the crisis in slavery policy
  103. The role of taxation in the reform of slavery
  104. Appendix: Court records of slaves issued certificates of freedom
  105. Murgu:the wages of slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate
  106. Slow Death for Slavery. The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936
  107. The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
  108. Atlantic System - Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System. Edited by Barbara L. Solow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. viii + 355. £35; $39.50.
  109. Slavery in Africa and the Slave Trades from Africa
  110. State and Society in the Sokoto Caliphate
  111. Keeping Slaves in Place
  112. Miller's Vision of Meillassoux
  113. Concubinage in the Sokoto caliphate (1804–1903)
  114. Revolutionary Mahdism and Resistance to Colonial Rule in the Sokoto Caliphate, 1905–6
  115. Contribution a l'Histoire des Populations du Sudest Nigerien. La Case du Mangari (XVIe-XIXe s.)
  116. Tradition and Transformation in Eastern Nigeria: A Sociopolitical History of Owerri and Its Hinterland, 1902-1947
  117. Sex Ratio and Ethnicity: a Reply to Paul E. Lovejoy
  118. The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa: A Review of the Literature
  119. The development and execution of Frederick Lugard's policies toward Slavery in Northern Nigeria
  120. Africans in Bondage
  121. Concubinage and the Status of Women Slaves in Early Colonial Northern Nigeria
  122. Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan
  123. All that Glimmers is not … Salt? - Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 351. £27.50.
  124. Africa - Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar: Integration of an East African Commercial Empire into the World Economy, 1770–1873. By Abdul Sheriff. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1987. Pp. xx, 297. $29.95 cloth, $15.95 paper.
  125. Africans in Bondage: Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade.
  126. Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan
  127. Labour and Capitalist Development in Africa
  128. Guerres et Societes. Les Populations du "Niger" occidental au XIXe siecle et leurs reactions face a la colonisation (1896-1906)
  129. David Eltis. Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New York: Oxford University Press. 1987. Pp. xiii, 418. $39.95.
  130. An Anthropology of Slavery - Anthropologie de l'esclavage: Le ventre defer et d'argent. By Claude Meillassoux. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1986. Pp. 375. 135F.
  131. Africans in Bondage: Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade. Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy. Madison: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 1986. Pp. xi, 378. $16.00 paper.
  132. Black and White in Southern Zambia: The Tonga Plateau Economy and British Imperialism 1890–1939. By Kenneth P. Vickery. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986. Pp. xiii, 248. $35.00. - Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Cent...
  133. Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan
  134. Burden-Bearers - The Workers of African Trade. Edited by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Paul E. Lovejoy. London and Beverly Hills: SAGE Publications, 1985. Pp. 304. £33.
  135. Paul Lovejoy: Caravans of kola: the Hausa kola trade, 1700–1900. x, 181 pp. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University press, 1980.
  136. Africans in Bondage: Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade
  137. Workers of African Trade
  138. The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria
  139. Hatumere: Islamic Design in West Africa
  140. Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan
  141. The Workers of African Trade
  142. Africans in Bondage: Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade
  143. Cape Slavery - Slavery in Dutch South Africa. By Nigel Worden. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii + 207. £22.50.
  144. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
  145. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
  146. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa. By Paul E. Lovejoy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. x plus 349 pp. $39.50)
  147. Paul E. Lovejoy: Transformations in slavery: a history of slavery in Africa. (African Studies Series, 36). xvi, 349 pp. Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 1983. £25 (Paper £7.95).
  148. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
  149. Dar Al-Kuti and the Last Years of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
  150. Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture
  151. Cape of Torments: Slavery and Resistance in South Africa
  152. Modes de production et sociétés pré-coloniales
  153. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
  154. Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960
  155. Silent Violence: Food, Famine and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria
  156. Commercial Sectors in the Economy of the Nineteenth-Century Central Sudan: The Trans-Saharan Trade and the Desert-Side Salt Trade
  157. Das Brot der Wüste
  158. Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa
  159. The Slave Trade Seen Askew - The Transatlantic Slave Trade. A History. By James A. Rawley. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1981. Pp. xiv + 452. £16.95; $32.
  160. The Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa
  161. British Imperialism and African Response: The Niger Valley, 1851-1905
  162. Caravans of Kola: The Hausa Kola Trade 1700-1900
  163. African Historical Demography, Vol. II.
  164. The Kola Trade - Caravans of Kola: The Hausa Kola Trade 1700–1900. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press and University Press Ltd. in association with Oxford University Press, 1980, Pp. x + 181. No price stated.
  165. The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis
  166. Caravans of Kola
  167. Counting the Camels: The Economics of Transportation in Pre-Industrial Nigeria
  168. From Slaves to Squatters. Plantation Labour and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925
  169. The Lāmībe of Fombina
  170. Polanyi's "Ports of Trade": Salaga and Kano in the Nineteenth Century
  171. Caravans of Kola: The Hausa Kola Trade 1700-1900
  172. The Ideology of Slavery in Africa
  173. Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite-Bourgeoisie. By Gavin Kitching. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1980. Pp. xx + 479. $35.00.
  174. The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa and the Americas
  175. Nigerian Groundnut Exports: Origins and Early Development
  176. The Oyo Empire c. 1600-c. 1836: A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
  177. The Kano Civil War and British Over-rule, 1882-1940
  178. Rejoinder
  179. Kola in the History of West Africa.
  180. The Hausa Factor in West African History
  181. African Businessmen and Development in Zambia. By Andrew A. Beveridge and Anthony R. Oberschall. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. xv + 382. $22.50.
  182. The Characteristics of Plantations in the Nineteenth-Century Sokoto Caliphate
  183. A Rural Economy Anatomized - Population, Prosperity and Poverty. Rural Kano, 1900 and 1970. By Polly Hill. Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. 240. £8.50.
  184. Traders in Mali - Les Négociants de la Savane. Histoire et Organisation Sociale des Kooroko (Mali). By Jean-Loup Amselle. Paris: Éditions Anthropos, 1977. Pp. 290. No price given.
  185. Indigenous African Slavery
  186. Research in Economic Anthropology
  187. Nigeria: Economy and Society
  188. Relations of Production: Marxist Approaches to Economic Anthropology
  189. The Affairs of Daura: History and Change in a Hausa State, 1800-1958
  190. Plantations in the Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate
  191. The Role of the Wangara in the Economic Transformation of the Central Sudan in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
  192. The Borno Salt Industry
  193. People of the Zongo. The Transformation of Ethnic Identities in Ghana
  194. Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa
  195. Pilgrims in a Strange Land: Hausa Communities in Chad
  196. Trading in West Africa 1840-1920
  197. The Desert-Side Economy of the Central Sudan
  198. Interregional Monetary Flows in the Precolonial Trade of Nigeria
  199. An Economic History of Nigeria, 1860 - 1960
  200. The Kambarin Beriberi: the formation of a specialized group of Hausa Kola traders in the nineteenth century
  201. Preface to the Second Edition
  202. Epilogue
  203. Notes
  204. Foreword by Paul E. Lovejoy
  205. Africa and Slavery
  206. Relationships of Dependency, 1600–1800
  207. The Nineteenth-Century Slave Trade
  208. The Abolitionist Impulse
  209. Chronology of Measures against Slavery
  210. Select Bibliography
  211. Books in this series
  212. On the Frontiers of Islam, 1400–1600
  213. The Export Trade in Slaves, 1600–1800
  214. The Enslavement of Africans, 1600–1800
  215. The Organization of Slave Marketing, 1600–1800
  216. Slavery and “Legitimate Trade” on the West African Coast
  217. Slavery in the Savanna during the Era of the Jihads
  218. Slavery in Central, Southern, and Eastern Africa in the Nineteenth Century
  219. Slavery in the Political Economy of Africa