Enslaved Africans and Their Descendants in Africa

This book examines African slavery's diverse systems and personal experiences, revealing how individuals lived under and adapted to various forms of servitude across regions and time periods. Through personal histories, it uncovers the human impact and legacy of slavery in Africa, highlighting resilience and the complex realities of post-slavery life.

Martin A. Klein is a professor emeritus from the University of Toronto. He has written or edited a dozen books, mostly on slavery and the slave trade in Francophone West Africa. He is the author of Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa and the editor of Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia and (with Claire C. Robertson) Women and Slavery in Africa. He has served as president of the African Studies Association and the Canadian Association of African Studies.
Stephen J. Rockel is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. Specializing in East Africa, he is interested in labor, slavery, urbanization, and environmental history, as well as empires and conflict. He published Carriers of Culture: Labor on the Road in Nineteenth-Century East Africa and coedited Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casualties, War, and Empire. His current projects include histories of slavery in Tanzania and caravan workers across Africa.