Notes . Bibliogr. dissém. Glossaire.

Part I : Introduction -- African 'slavery' as an institution of marginality / Kopytoff, Igor ; Miers, Suzanne -- Part II: The slave as institutionalized outsider -- Mafakur : a limbic institution of the Margi (Nigeria) / Vaughan, James H. -- Part III: Variations in the uses of slaves -- Slavery and social stratification among the Sena of Mozambique : a study of the Kaporo system / Isaacman, Barbara ; Isaacman, Allen -- Slaves and slavery in Igboland, Nigeria / Uchendu, Victor C. -- Slavery in nineteenth-century Aboh (Nigeria) / Nwachukwu-Ogedengbe, K. -- Slavery and the evolution of nineteenth-century Damagaram (Zinder, Niger) / Dunbar, Roberta Ann -- Part IV: Slavery in the structure of descent groups -- Wono : institutionalized dependency in Sharbro descent groups (Sierra Leone) / MacCormack, Carol P. -- Imbangala lineage slavery (Angola) / Miller, Joseph C. -- Economic and social dimensions of Kongo slavery (Zaire) / MacGaffey, Wyatt -- Part V: The historical dynamics of slave systems -- Changing forms of servitude among the Kerebe of Tanzania / Hartwig, Gerald W. -- Slavery and economic response among the Vai (Liberia and Sierra Leone) / Holsoe, Svend E. -- Slavery among coastal Middlemen : the Duala of Cameroon / Austen, Ralph A. -- Servitude among the Wolof and Sereer of Senegambia / Klein, Martin A. -- Part VI: The ecology of servility in multi-ethnic settings -- Servility and political control : Botlhanka among the BaTawana of Northwestern Botswanna, ca. 1750-1906 / Tlou, Thomas -- The Tureg of the Central Sudan : gradations in servility at the desert edge (Niger and Nigeria) / Baier, Stephen ; Lovejoy, Paul E. -- Part VII: Slavery and emancipation under colonial rule -- Slavery and emancipation among the Mende in Sierra Leone, 1896-1928 / Grace, John J. -- Part VIII: Social psychology in a servile system : an exploration -- Responses to dependence in a servile group : the Machube of Northern Benin / Baldus, Bernd.