Archaeological approaches to slavery and unfree labour in Africa

Rødland, Henriette; Wynne‐Jones, Stephanie

doi:10.1080/0067270x.2020.1819696

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“…Today, a growing number of scholars are studying slavery, slave trading, and resistance to enslavement from African perspectives (Bellagamba et al 2013a(Bellagamba et al ,b, 2016(Bellagamba et al , 2017Haenger 2000;Salau 2018). These include historical archaeologists whose perspective for a long time went unreflected in broader narratives (Posnansky 1984, Rødland & Wynne-Jones 2020. Among other things, archaeologists focus on settlement destruction, defensive structures, slave camps, slave markets, and slave quarters to provide material evidence for warfare, slave raiding, kidnapping, human trafficking, and enslavement, though interpretations of the material evidence are challenging (Swanepoel 2005).…”

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Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa

Engmann

2023

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Slavery in Africa dates to antiquity. Slave trading networks in Africa transported people across the Sahara and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, with significant numbers of people sent to the Middle East, India, central Asia, and South and Southeast Asia. Africa, however, was not only a source of export of people; enslaved persons were also imported into the continent. This article reviews scholarly research into the capture, trade, and use of enslaved men, women, and children in Africa, with a focus on Ghana. It suggests that the history and legacies of slavery and slave trading cannot be understood without reference to African historiography, the politics of knowledge production, and present-day heritage tourism. In reviewing the historical and anthropological research, it also introduces some of the possibilities, problems, and challenges of archaeological approaches to studying slavery and slave trading to demonstrate that archaeology is in conversation with—and of value to—those outside the discipline.

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Section: Slavery In Africamentioning

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Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa

Engmann

2023

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE

Alders

2023

Afr Archaeol Rev

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African Archaeological Journals and Social Issues 2014–2021

Claassen

2023

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The two waves of reflexivity in archaeology are the identity politics of archaeologists and stakeholder politics. These social issues are considered in this article through the perspective of three African archaeological journals produced from 2014 to 2021. Identity politics is examined through a quantitative analysis of authorship, book reviewing, and the countries covered. I conclude that parity of gender authorship—assuming 61% male and 39% female archaeologists—has been achieved by the African Archaeological Review, Journal of African Archaeology, and Azania. In book reviewing, this is less so. The geographical coverage across the three journals shows lacunae. Stakeholder politics is most visible in book reviews and special issues. Journal ethics and goals and the final topics of open access and other ways of broadening the pool of authors, reviewers, and accessibility are offered.

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Archaeological approaches to slavery and unfree labour in Africa

Cited by 3 publications

References 23 publications

Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa

Slaving and Slave Trading in Africa

The Archaeology of Social Transformation in Rural Zanzibar, Tanzania, from the Eleventh Through Nineteenth Centuries CE

African Archaeological Journals and Social Issues 2014–2021

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