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THE SLAVE TRADE ACROSS THE SAHARA - The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. By John Wright. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xiv+226. £75 (isbn0-415-38046-4).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2007

DENNIS D. CORDELL
DENNIS D. CORDELL
Affiliation:
Southern Methodist University
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Northwestern AfricaWest AfricaSaharaIslamslaveryslave trade abolitionslave trade
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Book Review
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The Journal of African History , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , November 2007 , pp. 490 - 491
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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References

1 Ahmed Mohamed, ‘Mauritania law promises jail for slavery’, African Herald (Dallas) 18 (August 2007), 1, 27, 29.

2 Ralph A. Austen and Dennis D. Cordell, ‘Trade, transportation, and expanding economic networks: Saharan caravan commerce in the era of European expansion, 1500–1900’, in Alusine Jalloh and Toyin Falola (eds.), Black Business and Economic Power (Rochester NY, 2002), 80–113.

3 See, for example, Norimitsu Onishi, ‘Out of Africa or bust, with a desert to cross’, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2001, A1, A12; Elizabeth Savage (ed.), The Human Commodity; Perspectives on the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade (London, 1992).