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.
1. Africa and slavery
2. On the frontiers of Islam, 1400-1600
3. The export trade in slaves, 1600-1800
4. The enslavement of Africans, 1600-1800
5. The organization of slave marketing, 1600-1800
6. Relationships of dependency, 1600-1800
7. The nineteenth-century slave trade
8. Slavery and 'legitimate trade' on the west African coast
9. Slavery in the savanna during the era of the Jihads
10. Slavery in central, southern, and eastern Africa in the nineteenth century
11. The abolitionist impulse
12. Slavery in the political economy of Africa.
