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| Title: | The late treatment of slavery in Sokoto: background and consequences of the 1936 proclamation |
| Author: | Jumare, Ibrahim M. |
| Year: | 1994 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 303-322 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria Northern Nigeria Great Britain |
| Subjects: | colonialism abolition of slavery Sokoto polity |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/221027 |
| Abstract: | This paper focuses on the background and consequences of the late treatment of slavery by the British in Northern Nigeria, with particular reference to the Sokoto sultanate. It first explains why the British refused to deal with domestic slavery as soon as colonial administration was established in Northern Nigeria. The second part of the paper examines the general decline of domestic slavery in the period from 1900 through the 1930s and shows that this decline was accelerated by the commoditization of labour. The third section discusses the final onslaught against domestic slavery by the British administration, in collaboration with the local authorities, and the role of the new general law concerning slavery known as Ordinance 35 of 1936. The final section evaluates the consequences of emancipation for the economy and society of Sokoto sultanate, paying attention to the socioeconomic relationship between freed slaves and their former owners, the lack of alternative work for freed slaves, vagrancy laws which were passed with a view to restricting the movement of freed slaves, and the persistence of concubinage, despite people's changing attitude toward slavery. Notes, ref. |
