Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria 1897-1936

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Cambridge University Press, 1 juil. 1993 - 391 pages
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This book examines the decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave societies in modern history. Rather than emancipate slaves, the colonial state abolished the legal status of slavery, encouraging them to buy their freedom. Many were unable to do so, and slavery was not finally abolished until l936. The authors have written a provocative book, raising doubts over the moral legitimacy of both the Sokoto Caliphate and the colonial state.
 

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some uses of experiment
1
models of brass and aids
31
Newtons prisms and the uses
67
A viol of water or a wedge of glass
105
Galileos experimental discourse
117
the role of successful
135
The rhetoric of experiment
159
experimentation
183
Justification and experiment
299
electricity and the creation
337
Why did Britain join CERN?
385
From Kwajalein to Armageddon? Testing and the social
409
The epistemology of experiment
437
Select bibliography
461
Subject index
474
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Page 40 - Telescopes, there is nothing so far distant but may be represented to our view; and by the help of Microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible World discovered to the understanding.
Page 37 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Page 337 - One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued •with life. Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed ? It was a bold question, and one which has ever been considered as a mystery ; yet with how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.
Page 40 - Earth it self, which lyes so neer us, under our feet, shews quite a new thing to us, and in every little particle of its matter, we now behold almost as great a variety of Creatures, as we were able before to reckon up in the whole Universe it self.
Page 167 - Any question of philosophy, on the other hand, which is so obscure and uncertain, that human reason can reach no fixed determination with regard to it; if it should be treated at all, seems to lead us naturally into the style of dialogue and conversation.
Page 125 - ... from a height of, say, 100 cubits, would so differ in speed that when the heavier had reached the ground, the other would not have fallen more than 10 cubits. SIMPLICIO. His language would seem to indicate that he had tried the experiment, because he says: We see the heavier; now the word see shows that he had made the experiment. SAGREDO. But I, Simplicio, who have made the test can assure you that a cannon ball weighing one or two hundred pounds, or even more, will not reach the ground by as...
Page 460 - A New Modification of the Cloud Method of Determining the Elementary Electrical Charge and the Most Probable Value of That Charge.

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À propos de l'auteur (1993)

Paul E. Lovejoy is a Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto and holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples and a member of the UNESCO 'Slave Route' Project. Lovejoy's recent publications include Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade (2010) and Slavery, Islam and Diaspora (2009). He is the editor of the Harriet Tubman Series on the African Diaspora for Africa World Press. He has received several awards, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling in 2007, the President's Research Award of Merit from York University in 2009 and the Distinguished Africanist Award from the University of Texas, Austin in 2010.

Jan S. Hogendorn is Grossman Professor of Economics at Colby College. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and has published widely in economic history, with a special interest in West Africa. His books have been published by Oxford, Cambridge, Academic Press, HarperCollins, and Addison-Wesley. A fellow at Linacre College at Oxford, he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Birmingham, Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, and Bosporos University in Turkey.

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