This is the first study of slavery and its legacy in the Yoruba and incompletely Islamicised periphery of the Sokoto caliphate and of northern Nigeria. It shows the decline of slavery and the emergence of a small-scale peasantry at the end of the nineteenth century, and takes the story into the late-colonial and post-independence periods. Focusing on Ilorin, the city and emirate on the southern fringe of the caliphate, now in Nigeria, it shows how relations between the city elite and the ex-slaves and peasants they controlled have fluctuated during the long process of oppression and reaction.
Ann O'Hear is Co-ordinator of Intercultural Studies at Niagara University, NewYork.
- ISBN10 1878822861
- ISBN13 9781878822864
- Publish Date 2 October 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint University of Rochester Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English