Introduction: Conceptualizing slavery in global Africa
Issues of enslavement
Ethnicity, culture and religion in global Africa
Experiences of the enslaved in Africa
Regulation and patterns in collaboration in the slave trade
Enforced migration
Pawnship, slavery and freedom
Concubinage, polygyny, and the status of women
Children of the slave trade
Enslaved Muslims from the central Sudan
Life stories of enslavement
Transatlantic transformations in identities
Freedom narratives of trans-Atlantic slavery
The odyssey of Catherine Mulgrave Zimmermann
Identity and diaspora in global Africa
Situating identities: methodology through the ethnic lens
Scarification and the loss of history in the African diaspora
Enslaved Africans and their expectations of slave life in the Americas
Conclusion: Reflections on the study of slavery.