This is a collection of papers from a workshop on long-distance trade in
slaves across the Sahara and the Black Sea in the nineteenth century, held in
Bellagio, Italy, in 1988. The volume, concentrating on the southern of these
two trade connections, both tries to redress the concentration on the
trans-Atlantic slave trade, and to put slave trade in a wider historical and
social context. Among the many topics covered in the volume are slaves and
slave trade in the context of the Mediterranean (J.O. Hunwick and Daniel
Schroeter), of salt trade (A. McDougall), women in Hausaland (B.B. Mack), the
jihad (A. Mahadi), military slavery in the Sudan (G. Prunier and D.H.
Johnson) as well as surveys of the trade in west and east (R.A. Austen, M.
Klein, J. Wright and R.O. Collins). A 23-page bibliography by J.G. Miller
rounds off the volume.
Les pays du Tchad dans la tourmente, 1880-1903 by Jean-Claude Zeltner. Paris: Harmattan, 1988, 285 pp.
Père Zeltner in this survey, describes the Lake Chad-Waday region in
last two decades of the last century as the prey of three great regional
powers: The Mahdi of Sudan, the Sanusiyya of the north, and the adventurer
Rabih b. Fadl Allah. For this, he has utilized two new sets of sources, the
French dispatches from the region, and the Sanusi correspondence, recently
published by Jean Louis Triaud (see SAJHS, 1, 100-1). The study covers
the period from the first Sanusi contacts to the region, until the French
troops arrived and defeated the indigenous forces.
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