Women and slavery in Africa

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Title:	Women and slavery in Africa
Editors:	Robertson, Claire C. Klein, Martin A.
Chapter(s):	Present
Year:	1983
Pages:	380
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Madison
Publisher:	Wisconsin University Press
ISBN:	029909460X
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	female slaves slavery
Abstract:	The multifaced and sometimes surprising roles of women in African slavery are the focus of this collection of papers. They shed new light on a number of hitherto unresolved issues: that more men than women slaves were exported from Africa across the Atlantic was not a product of New World demand but of internal African demand; that it was women's productive rather than reproductive functions that made them to desirable as slaves. The article also pays attention to women as slave owners, users and traders.