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In many parts of the African Muslim world, slavery still blights the landscape. What are the origins of this terrible institution? Why is it still practiced? How widespread is it and how does it differ from Western chattel slavery?
This book tells the story of how the enslavement of Africans by Berbers, Arabs, and other Africans became institutionalized and legitimized throughout Muslim Africa. A classic, pioneering study, first published in 1971 and extensively updated in this revised edition, Slavery in the History of Black Muslim Africa provides an expansive portrait of domestic slavery from the tenth to the nineteenth century in the context of the religious, social, and economic conditions of the African Islamic world.
Drawing on a host of accounts from contemporary observers such as Leo Africanus and Ibn Battuta, Fisher and Fisher describe the status and rights of slaves in Africa, and their various roles as currency, goods, eunuchs, soldiers, and statesmen, as well as the jarring historical interruption brought on by slave raiders and traders in West and North Africa.

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• Acknowledgements(p. vii)
• Foreword(p. xvii)
• Chapters I. Introduction(p. 1)
• Population mobility(p. 1)
• The Islamic factor(p. 14)
• The enslavement of Muslims(p. 18)
• Chapters II. The Size of the Slave Population(p. 33)
• Chapters III. Slave Status and Religion(p. 40)
• Pagan slaving(p. 40)
• Jihad and slave-raiding(p. 46)
• Slave and free status(p. 54)
• The contribution of slaves to religious activity(p. 59)
• Religious conversion and commitment(p. 64)
• Emancipation(p. 70)
• The return of the slaves(p. 83)
• Chapters IV. Exports and Marketing(p. 98)
• Slave exports and their relation to the home market(p. 98)
• The arms trade(p. 111)
• Selection of export models(p. 115)
• Slaves on the march(p. 122)
• Chapters V. The Domestic Scene, I: General Treatment(p. 138)
• General treatment(p. 138)
• Slave revolts(p. 152)
• Runaway slaves(p. 158)
• Chapters VI. The Domestic Scene, II: Slaves in the Family(p. 177)
• Domestic demand for slaves(p. 177)
• Concubines(p. 177)
• Cooks and cooking(p. 202)
• Chapters VII. The Domestic Scene, III: Slaves at Work(p. 208)
• Free and slave labour(p. 208)
• Agricultural workers(p. 211)
• Artisans(p. 218)
• Caravan workers(p. 222)
• Luxury slaves(p. 231)
• Chapters VIII. The Domestic Scene, IV: Slaves and the State(p. 238)
• Colonists(p. 238)
• Soldiers(p. 242)
• Royal and other government slaves(p. 256)
• Eunuchs(p. 280)
• Chapters IX. The Domestic Scene, V: Slaves as a Means of Exchange(p. 295)
• Tribute(p. 295)
• Alms and presents(p. 307)
• Slaves as currency(p. 316)
• Chapters X. The Slave Market in Kuka(p. 322)
• Chapters XI. Conclusion: Anti-Slavery Measures(p. 332)
• Appendix A. Outline Chronology of Nachtigal's Travels(p. 344)
• Appendix B. 'Slave Raids April to July 30, 1872'(p. 347)
• Students' Bibliography(p. 383)
• Index(p. 389)

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Humphrey J. Fisher was Reader in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, until his retirement in 1999.