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The Human Commodity: Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Societies from sub-Saharan Africa to Ottoman Turkey and from the eastern Sudan to western Morocco were actively engaged in the slave trade. These scholarly studies, drawing on diverse archival material, shed light not only on the movement of particular peoples as slaves and slave traders but also on such issues as gender and age distribution, absorption of slaves within societies, specialised slaves, prices, anti-slavery measures, and the demographic impact and mortality of slaves.
This volume strays beyond the strict limits of the nineteenth century and in so doing offers both a chronological perspective and an historical context for subsequent developments in the trans-Saharan slave trade. Only by placing the trans-Saharan slave trade in its wider context can we begin to piece together the web of history in which it existed.
This volume strays beyond the strict limits of the nineteenth century and in so doing offers both a chronological perspective and an historical context for subsequent developments in the trans-Saharan slave trade. Only by placing the trans-Saharan slave trade in its wider context can we begin to piece together the web of history in which it existed.
279 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1992
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Elizabeth Savage
42 books6 followersElizabeth Savage (née Fitzgerald; February 15, 1918 – July 15, 1989) was an American novelist and short-story writer. In nine novels, she explored the turbulent decades between 1930 and 1980 in the Western United States and along the Atlantic Coast. Her work focuses on men and women dealing with the Great Depression, World War II, the birth of the women’s movement, the Sixties counterculture and the Vietnam War. Among her best-known books are The Last Night at the Ritz, the semi-autobiographical The Girls from the Five Great Valleys, Summer of Pride, But Not for Love, A Fall of Angels, and Happy Ending.
Savage was married for 50 years to the equally celebrated novelist Thomas Savage with whom she had three children. In novels such as But Not For Love, she captures the stresses caused by class distinctions, economic differences and male/female relationships within groups of friends or extended families, whether the combatants live in Maine beach colonies, remote Idaho ranches or Montana college towns. She also focuses on complex female friendships, stretching over many years. A strong sense of place permeates all her work. Three of Savage's novels illuminate the American West, where she spent much of her childhood. Others are set in Maine, where she lived most of her adulthood.
Savage was married for 50 years to the equally celebrated novelist Thomas Savage with whom she had three children. In novels such as But Not For Love, she captures the stresses caused by class distinctions, economic differences and male/female relationships within groups of friends or extended families, whether the combatants live in Maine beach colonies, remote Idaho ranches or Montana college towns. She also focuses on complex female friendships, stretching over many years. A strong sense of place permeates all her work. Three of Savage's novels illuminate the American West, where she spent much of her childhood. Others are set in Maine, where she lived most of her adulthood.
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