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Landscapes of Slavery in Africa book cover

1st Edition

Landscapes of Slavery in Africa

Edited By Lydia Wilson Marshall Copyright 2021
150 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Slavery was a large-scale process that put its mark on the African landscape in tangible ways—for example, through the capture, transfer, and imprisonment of captives and through the avoidance strategies that vulnerable communities used against slaving. Certainly, the expansion of trade routes, the depopulation of slaved regions, and an increased reliance on defensive architecture and places of... Read more

Introduction: Landscapes of Slavery in Africa

Lydia Wilson Marshall

1. Histories and Material Manifestations of Slavery in the Upper Gambia River Region: Preliminary Results of the Bandafassi Regional Archaeological Project

Matthew V. Kroot and Cameron Gokee

2. Shit, Blood, Artifacts, and Tears: Interrogating Visitor Perceptions and Archaeological Residues at Ghana's Cape Coast Castle Slave Dungeon

Wazi Apoh, James Anquandah and Seyram Amenyo-Xa

3. Landscape Transformation under Slavery, Indenture, and Imperial Projects in Bras d’Eau National Park, Mauritius

Julia Jong Haines

4. History, Materialization, and Presentation of Slavery in Tanzania

Daniel T. Rhodes

5. The Landscapes of Slavery in Kenya

Herman O. Kiriama

Biography

Lydia Wilson Marshall is Associate Professor of Anthropology at DePauw University, Greencastle, USA. She is the current Editor of the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage.

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