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| Title: | Slavery in the Sokoto caliphate |
| Author: | Lovejoy, P.E. |
| Book title: | The ideology of slavery in Africa |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Pages: | 201-243 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Northern Nigeria |
| Subjects: | slavery Sokoto polity |
| Abstract: | A description of this crucial institution in the political economy of the caliphate during the 19th century, the ideological setting, 'the quiet course of domestic slavery', the sale of 'domestic slaves', slave pressure on the social order, and of avenues of emancipation. Map, notes, ref. |