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Title:The Slaves of Salaga
Author:Johnson, MarionISNI
Year:1986
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:27
Issue:2
Pages:341-362
Language:English
Geographic term:Ghana
Subjects:slaves
slavery
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
History and Exploration
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/181139
Abstract:Salaga was one of the leading slave-markets of west Africa in the 1880s. The story of the slaves (their origin, who brought and bought them and their life-history) can be pieced together from the reports of travellers, officials, soldiers, merchants and missionaries, of various nationalities, African and European. Thus it is possible to lift the veil that usually conceals the internal slave trade of pre-colonial Africa and gain some idea of its scale and workings, and of the range of attitudes towards slavery and the slave trade. Notes.
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