Based on the symposium: Archaeological and historical dimensions of slavery in East and West Africa in comparative perspective, held Mar. 2 4-25, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Slavery, social revolutions and enduring memories / Paul J. Lane and Kevin C. MacDonald -- Part I Slave systems o f production in the African interior: case studies from the Sudanic bel t -- Segou: warfare and the origins of a state of slavery / Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara -- The daily life of slaves in the l ast years of the Bamana States of Kaarta and Segou / Moussa Sow -- The Early Medieval slave trade of the Central Sahel: archaeological and historical considerations / Anne Haour -- Slavery and slavin g in the Medieval and Post-Medieval Kingdoms of the Middle Nile / Da vid N. Edwards -- Enslavement and everyday life: living with slave r aiding in the North-Eastern Mandara Mountains of Cameroon / Scott Ma cEachern -- Part II Archaeological dimensions of the Atlantic sla ve trade: evidence from Africa and the diaspora -- Archaeological pe rspectives on the Atlantic slave trade: contrasts in time and space in Benin and Guinea / Kenneth G. Kelly -- Slaves without shackles: a n archaeology of everyday life on Gorée Island, Senegal / Ibrahima Thiaw -- Different conversations about the same thing? Source mate rials in the recreation of a nineteenth-century slave-raiding landscape , Northen Ghana / Natalie Swanepoel -- Archaeological perspective s on Colonial slavery: placing Africa in African diaspora studies in t he Caribbean / E. Kofi Agorsah -- Part III Elusive slavery: de tecting enslavement in the archaeological record of Eastern Africa -- The invisible archaeology of slavery in the Horn of Africa? / Ni all Finneran -- Monuments of predation: Turco-Egyptian forts in West ern Ethiopia / Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Slavery and slave tra ding in Eastern Africa: exploring the intersections of historical sourc es and archaeological evidence / Paul J. Lane -- Part IV Remem bering slavery: contemporary perceptions -- Recovering and rememberi ng a slave route in Central Tanzania / Stephanie Wynne-Jones -- M emory, oral history and the end of slavery in Tanzania: some methodolog ical considerations / Jan-Georg Deutsch -- The present in the pas t: how narratives of the slave-raiding era inform current politics in N orthern and Central Nigeria / Roger Blench -- Constructing and co ntesting histories of slavery at the Cape, South Africa / Antonia Ma lan and Nigel Worden -- A place of history: archaeology and heritage at Cidade Velha, Cape Verde / Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Christop her Evans and Konstantin Richter.