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The continent of Africa is one of the regions most rife with contemporary slavery. [1] Slavery in Africa has a long history, within Africa since before historical records, but intensifying with the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trade [2] [3] and again with the trans-Atlantic slave trade; [4] the demand for slaves created an entire series ...
In August 1932 the emperor founded the Slavery Department under Likamakuas Mangasha and Lej Alemayu Tene, with the task to supervise the implementation of the new anti-slavery laws and the slavery courts: all slaves were to be registered, refugee slaves were not to be persecuted, slave trade was prohibited, no one was henceforth to be born into ...
Slave Elites in the Middle East and Africa: A Comparative Study (2000)) John Edward Philips (born 1952) is an American historian. He is a retired Professor of International Society, Hirosaki University of Japan, with many works on African history.
Africa just recorded the highest rate of modern-day enslavement in the world. Armed conflict, state-sponsored forced labor, and forced marriages were the main causes behind the estimated 9.2 ...
Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people today range from around 38 million [ 1 ] to 49.6 million, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition ...
The book received universal acclaim as a comprehensive and career capping effort on the part of the author and the subject matter. Pulitzer Prize winning author Eric Foner called Inhuman Bondage "one of the finest one-volume histories of the rise and fall of modern slavery." [5]
Kara's first non-fiction book on contemporary slavery, Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, was published by Columbia University Press in January 2009. The book won the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, given to the most outstanding nonfiction book on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements. [17]
Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa, Cambridge University Press 1998. African Studies Book 94. Historical dictionary of slavery and abolition (The A to Z of slavery and abolition), Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, 2002.