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Slavery, the End of Slavery, and the Intensification of Work in the French Soudan, 1883–1912

RICHARD ROBERTS
African Economic History, November 2021, 49 (1) 47-72; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.49.1.47
RICHARD ROBERTS
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vol. 49 no. 1 47-72
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.49.1.47
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African Economic History
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0145-2258
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2163-9108
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  • Published online November 16, 2021.
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  1. Richard Roberts (rroberts{at}stanford.edu), Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Stanford University.
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    • The Precolonial Economy of the Middle Niger Valley and the Mobilization of Labor, ca. 1850–1905
    • The End of Slavery, 1905–1912
    • Labor Mobilization after Slavery I: Temporary Wage Labor and Cooperative Labor Forms
    • Labor Mobilization after Slavery II: Intensification of Household Labor
    • Labor Mobilization after Slavery III: Trafficking in Women and Children and Forced Marriages
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