The West African slave plantation

By Mohammed Bashir Salau

Subjects: Plantations, Slavery, africa, HISTORY / Africa / West, Slavery, Slave trade, africa, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, Slave trade, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, History

Description: "The literature on Atlantic slavery is rich with accounts of plantation complexes in the Americas, but to date none have been produced for West Africa. In this valuable study, Mohammed Bashir Salau helps to address this lacunae by looking at the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and in the process provides an innovative look at one piece of the historically significant Sokoto Caliphate"--