From Chains to Bonds The Slave Trade Revisited [Paperback]

Most important issues of today's world - such as development, human rights, and cultural pluralism - bear the unmistakable stamp of the transatlantic slave trade. In particular Africa's state of development can only be properly understood in the light of the widespread dismantling of African societies and the methodical and lasting human bloodletting to which the continent was subjected by way of the trans-Saharan and transatlantic slave trade over the centuries. But this greatest displacement of population in history also transformed the vast geo-cultural area of the Americas and the Caribbean.

In this volume, one result of UNESCO's projectMemory of Peoples: The Slave Route, scholars and thinkers from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean have come together to raise some crucial questions and offer new perspectives on debates that have lost none of their urgency.

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Preface

Foreword
Nic??phore Soglo

'The Body of Memory'
Mohammed Kacimi

From the Slave Trade to the Challenge of Development: Reflections on the Conditions for World Peace
Doudou Di??ne

Popularisation of the History of the Slave Trade
Ibrahima Baba Kak??

Part I: History, Memory and Archives of the Slave Trade

Chapter 1.Women, Marriage and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Black Africa during the Precolonial Period
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch

Chapter 2.The Travel and Transport of Slaves
Mame-Kouna Tondut-S??ne

Chapter 3.The Transition from the Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce
Robin Law

Chapter 4.Submarine Archaeology and the History of the Slave Trade
Max Gu??rout

Chapter 5.Origins of the Slaves in the Lima Region in Peru (Sixteenth and l£;