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  • 29 - Introduction:

  • from Part Six - Legal Records
  • Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University, New York, Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    13 May 2013, pp 333-333

  • Summary

    For the past five centuries, slavery constituted the most striking aspect of personal dependency in Africa. It affected quite high percentages of the population and only came largely to an end in the early twentieth century. More challenging is the task of finding African slave voices within the early-modern European-language sources on African slavery. The document presented in this chapter is an early-eighteenth-century French manuscript in two volumes listed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France under the label Voyages de Jean Godot tant a l'Amerique, Afrique, Asie. The manuscript, long forgotten in a miscellanea collection, was brought to the attention of African studies scholars by Jean-Claude Nardin and Hermann Spirik, who realized its relevance not only for the history of the French presence in West Africa, but as an important source of information on African societies.