Africans in Bondage; Studies in Slavery and the Slave Trade. Essays in Honor of Philip D. Curtin on the Occasion of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of African Studies at the University of Wisconsin de Lovejoy, Paul E., editor - 1986

Madison WI: The University of Wisconsin Pess, 1986. Paperback. 378p., text reproduced from a keyboard-set ms, illustrated with tables and line maps, softbound in 9x6 inch decorated wraps. The lower corner has a bump affecting front cover corner-tip and perhaps one whole third of the textblock, if only faintly. The back cover bears a tiny bump at the head. Otherwise sound, and entirely clean and unmarked, a pretty good copy. Find thirteen substantial essays, amongst these "When did smallpox reach the new world and why does it matter; Slave prices in the Portuguese southern Atlantic; Anastacia and the slave women of Rio de Janeiro; Healing and race in the South Carolina low country; The slave trade in Niger delta oral tradition; the Atlantic slave trade and the Gabon estuary: the Mpongwe to 1860; Kru emigration to British and French Guiana; Problems of slave control in the Sokoto caliphate; Slaves into soldiers; Warlords and enslavement, slave-raiders from eastern Ubangi-Shari 1870-1920