Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa

Paul E. Lovejoy has researched and written on African history and African diaspora history for more than 30 years. This book brings together key four themes of his work, Conceptual Issues of Enslavement; Enforced Migration; Identity and Diaspora, and Biography and Slavery. The first explores the conceptual problems of studying slavery in Africa and the Atlantic world from the perspective of an "Africanist" perception of the topic. In the second section, Lovejoy examines the parameters of the enforced migration of enslaved Africans, including the impact on civilian populations in Africa, constraints on the migration, and the importance of women and children. The third section examines the question of identity of the enslaved population and the impact of identifiable groups of people on the development of the diaspora in both Africa and in the Americas. Finally, he looks at biography, focusing on the life stories of individuals caught up in the slave trade.

Written by an eminent historian of Africa and the African diaspora, Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa is essential reading for students and scholars of African history, the African diaspora and the history of the slave trade.