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| Title: | Slavery and Emancipation in Senegal's Peanut Basin: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
| Author: | Moitt, Bernard |
| Year: | 1989 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 27-50 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Senegal |
| Subjects: | slavery abolition of slavery groundnuts Labor and Employment Economics and Trade History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) colonialism |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/219223 |
| Abstract: | The transformation from an economy based on the export of gum and slaves to one based on the export of a cash crop - peanuts - was the most important economic transformation Senegal experienced in the second half of the 19th century. The increase in the production of peanuts was made possible by a number of internal dynamics, the most important of which were the extension of the transportation network and a massive inflow of slave labour from Mali. Since technological change was limited, production was increased by the extension of the surface under cultivation and by greater inputs of labour. Slave labour was thus crucial to production in the Wolof households of Kajoor and Bawol where the development and expansion of the peanut became marked after 1840. Though many slaves left their masters' households after 1905 when the law permitted them to do so, other remained. Many of those who left became Mourides - members of the Islamic Brotherhood founded by Amadou Bamba - or migrant labourers. Former slaves also practised craft skills or earned wages as general labourers during the dry season. Ref. |
