1. Slavery in the Western Sudan; 2. Abolition and retreat: Senegal, 1848–1876; 3. Slavery, slave-trading and social revolution; 4. Senegal after Brière; 5. Conquest of the Sudan: Desbordes to Archinard; 6. Senegal in the 1890s; 7. The end of the conquest; 8. The imposition of metropolitan priorities on slavery; 9. With smoke and mirrors: slavery and the conquest of Guinea; 10. The Banamba exodus; 11. French fears and the limits to an emancipation policy; 12. Looking for the tracks: how they did it; 13. After the war: renegotiating social relations; 14. A question of honour.
A history of slavery during the 19th and 20th centuries in three former French colonies.
'Martin A. Klein tells the story admirably; his research is based not only on the extensive use of archival and secondary materials, but also on interviews with the descendants of slaves and masters, whose memories of the past tend to be much harsher than the impressions of contemporary colonial observers.' Times Literary Supplement 'Klein's sensitive reading of this makes the book valuable to students of contemporary African society as well as historians of slavery, West Africa and French colonialism ... a convincingly argued and important book.' English Historical Review '... a profound, comprehensive, facts rich overview, based on several years of research by the author in African and European archives, collecting of oral records and reports by missionaries ... Martin Klein brought to the reader a book which helps in understanding not only of African slavery itself, but due to its persistence in the minds of many former slaves even long after is abolition, in understanding a lot about the African present as well.' Asian and African Studies
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