Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction: the Colonial Army and Western Sudan 2. The Background of Conquest 3. Revival Niger Plan 1876-80 4. Occupation 1880-3 5. Problems 1883-6 6. Consolidation New African Policy 7. 'Total Conquest' 1888-93 8. Civilian Administration 1893-5 9. Last Years Military Rule 1895-9 10. Conclusion: French Imperialism List sources Bibliography Index.

1. Slavery in the Western Sudan 2. Abolition and retreat: Senegal, 1848-1876 3. Slavery, slave-trading social revolution 4. Senegal after Briere 5. Conquest of Sudan: Desbordes to Archinard 6. 1890s 7. The end conquest 8. imposition metropolitan priorities on slavery 9. With smoke mirrors: Guinea 10. Banamba exodus 11. French fears limits an emancipation policy 12. Looking for tracks: how they did it 13. After war: renegotiating relations 14. A question honour.

One of the most important changes to take place during early colonial period was transformation from slave labour free labour. In French West Africa this resulted not a policy decision by administration but massive departure slaves in those societies reliant on The focal event an exodus Banamba, Maraka town which had been major centre both trade and exploitation During before Banamba exodus, tensions were building up within various societies, that reflected themselves gradual filtering away...

This article is an effort to examine the way in which events during and, some cases, before nineteenth century shaped modern Senegambian society. It concludes: (1) That slave trade contributed development of military structures and polarization societies between a warrior élite industrious Muslim peasant population. (2) change from legitimate commerce weakened élites while strengthening agriculturalists, who were able accumulate guns horses. (3) tensions two conflicting groups go back at...

This article, based on a review of the relevant literature, argues that analyses Andrew Hubbell and Walter Hawthorne can be extended to general interpretation impact slave trade decentralized societies. First, societies usually defended themselves effectively, forcing slavers both extend their networks further into interior devise new ways obtaining slaves. Second, agents were often successful in developing linkages within targeted exploited tensions hostilities them. In process, prey became...

Research on oral history tends to be concerned with two very different types of sources. I would refer them as traditions and data. Oral are formally preserved, not always narratives, but in some fixed form. They can, for example, passed songs, drum names, or proverbs. part the collective memory group get from generation generation. serve a legitimating function must necessity analyzed terms who what they legitimate. There is also large body data at any time which individuals hold memory,...

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