Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa

Lydon, Ghislaine; Hall, Bruce S.

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“…Bruce Hall and Ghislaine Lydon's review article gives a clear and comprehensive introduction to the problem of slavery in Islamic law (2016). 203 The 2010s saw the publication of several important monographs on official approaches to abolition in Islamic states of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All published in 2013, the books by Chouki el Hamel (Morocco), Ismael Musah Montana (Tunisia), and Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem (Mauritania) are key examples of geographically focused but conceptually wide-ranging contributions to these debates.…”

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Global Abolitionist Movements

Rossi¹

2023

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History

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Abolitionism succeeded thanks to the struggles of many movements, some genuinely global, others national or local but interconnected at a global level. This article takes a pluralist approach to global abolitionism. Since the late 17th century, the membership, objectives, and strategies of different abolitionist movements have been varied, but they shared the same objective: to impose their understanding of slavery as an aberration that ought to be de-legalized and eventually prohibited worldwide. This article periodizes global abolitionism in three main stages characterized, successively, by the primacy of egalitarianism, imperialism, and internationalism. By the mid-20th century, pro-slavery ideologies were obsolete in Euro-America and had disappeared from official policy globally. They survived in circumscribed contexts in which anti-slavery activists are struggling against the lingering vitality of pro-slavery ideas in the 21st century.

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Section: Discussion Of the Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%