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100			_aLovejoy, Paul E. (ed.)
245		0	_aIdeology of slavery in Africa / _cedited by Paul E.Lovejoy
260			_aLondon
260			_bSage Publications
260			_c1981
300			_a311 p.
502			_aSage series on african modernization and development: vol. 6
520			_aThis volume is the product of a conference held at York University, Toronto, in April 1980. Of the chapters in this volume, only David Northrup's was not presented at the confer ence, although he participated as the chairman of one session and subsequently wrote his contribution. Bogumil Jewsiewicki and Mumbanza mwa Bawele originally presented two papers, which they then combined into the version included here. All the articles were revised in accordance with the lively criticism and wide-ranging discussion that occurred at the conference. Besides those who have contributed to this volume, a number of other people, including Mordacai Abir, Bernd Baldus, Martin Klein, Igor Kopytoff, Richard Sigwalt, and Jean-Luc Vellut, participated in the sessions. The conference received financial assistance from York Uni versity and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Mordacai Abir and Sydney Kanya-Forstner cooper ated in the organization of the conference; Sydney Kanya-For stner also translated the chapter by Jewsiewicki and Mumbanza. The conference was hosted by Founders College and sponsored by the Department of History. Harold Kaplan, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and Paul Stevens, Chairman of the Department of History at the time, provided encouragement which greatly benefited the proceedings. Mrs. Evelyn Greenberg organized the registration of participants and typed some of the chapters. Most of the chapters were typed by Secretarial Services, under the direction of Ms. Doris Brillinger. I would like to express my gratitude to these individuals and institutions for their invalu able assistance. Slavery, as a specific form of exploitation, had a number of characteristics which distinguish it from other forms of exploi tation. First, slaves were property. As individuals they were owned, and while they were also recognized as human beings, their fundamental characteristic was that they were com modities. Slaves were outsiders by origin, who lacked kinship ties and who had been denied their heritage through judicial or other sanctions. The relationship between slave and master was ultimately based on coercion, realized initially through the original, often violent, act of enslavement and maintained there after through the threat and occasional institution of physical force. Slaves were completely at the disposal of their masters: The labor power of slaves could be used however desired; even their sexuality and, by extension, their reproductive capacities were not theirs by right.
650			_aSlavery Africa.
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