Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Slavery and the British conquest of Northern Nigeria
- 2 Fugitive slaves and the crisis in slavery policy
- 3 The debate on legal-status abolition
- 4 Emancipation and the law
- 5 Upholding proprietary rights to land
- 6 The role of taxation in the reform of slavery
- 7 The colonial economy and the slaves
- 8 The persistence of concubinage
- 9 Legal-status abolition: the final phase
- Appendix: Court records of slaves issued certificates of freedom
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Title in the series
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 Slavery and the British conquest of Northern Nigeria
- 2 Fugitive slaves and the crisis in slavery policy
- 3 The debate on legal-status abolition
- 4 Emancipation and the law
- 5 Upholding proprietary rights to land
- 6 The role of taxation in the reform of slavery
- 7 The colonial economy and the slaves
- 8 The persistence of concubinage
- 9 Legal-status abolition: the final phase
- Appendix: Court records of slaves issued certificates of freedom
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Title in the series
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- Slow Death for SlaveryThe Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria 1897–1936, pp. 305 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993