"Dangerous Vagabonds"

French Senegal and Resistance to Slave Emancipation
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-42706-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 122 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History

"Dangerous Vagabonds" examines the problem of illicit slavery in Senegal following the 1848 emancipation law. Where traditional scholarship relates its persistence to the economic and logistic pressures in the region, as well as a strong indigenous tradition of forced labor, this study goes further to show that inherent factors within the culture of French colonialism made abolishing the institution exceedingly difficult.

In 1848, when slavery was abolished across greater France, the practice remained virtually intact in the French colony of Senegal on the west coast of Africa. Slavery would continue to be practiced in the colony and its expanding borderlands until at least 1905, when this study ends. This work takes a multi-faceted approach by examining three aspects of French imperial culture that mitigated slave freedom in Senegal: the views of race and slavery maintained by Senegal’s influential métis (mixed-race) population; French ethnological assessments of the aptitude and capabilities of black West Africans; and related, a trend within French political culture to deny metropolitan rights to the non-white colonized—a phenomenon that intensified in far-flung French territories that were not completely under French control, and where few whites resided.

In complexifying post-colonial literature of West Africa, this study will be a useful resource to students and scholars of the history of slavery, colonial history, and West African studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hardy, Robin A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Emerging French Atlantic Sandbox: Africans, Slaves and European Competition

Chapter Three: West African Mixed-Race Residual Power and Slavery

Chapter Four: French Spectatorship and Slavery

Chapter Five: Metropolitan Political Culture: The Colonies, Race and the Emancipation of Slaves

Chapter Six: Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Robin A. Hardy is an executive with the Africa Center for Strategy and Policy in Washington DC and teaches university courses, specializing in Africa and Europe. Hardy is the author of several articles, including “Backgrounder—Islamic Insurgency in Senegal: A Foreboding History of Terror” (2023); “Europe, or the ‘Original West,’ Muslims, and Migration: The Peculiar History of France and West Africa with Broader Implications” (2020); “Countering Violent Extremism in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Policy Makers Need to Know” (2019); and “Violent Extremism in the Western Sahel: An Old Story with Contemporary Implications” (2019).