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By Mohammed Bashir Salau
The literature on Atlantic slavery is wealthy with money owed of plantation complexes within the Americas, yet thus far none were produced for West Africa. during this helpful research, Mohammed Bashir Salau is helping to deal with this lacunae by way of the plantation operations at Fanisau in Hausaland, and within the method presents an leading edge examine one piece of the traditionally major Sokoto Caliphate. The case research calls into query the idea that servile associations in West Africa have been “serf villages” and never “slave plantations,” and argues that manumission was once much less universal, no less than within the Caliphate, than in general believed. additionally, it offers proof at the key position of the emir of Kano (Abbas) and diverse retailers within the transition to groundnut cultivation and the numerous use of slave exertions via huge property holders within the early 20th century.
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5 The Kano area had been long exposed to the market economy before the emergence of the sarauta system. However, with the development of the sarauta system and the related emergence of Kano City as the royal city, Kano City became a relatively more important trading center as well as the southern terminus of the trans-Saharan trade. The increasing importance of the Kano region in trans-Saharan and West African commerce after the emergence of the sarauta system was partly because the sarakuna supported the expansion of commerce by establishing new local markets, protecting trade routes, establishing trade links with other states and by supplying a number of trade items, such as slaves.
The work of Murray Last, R. A. 59 These, and related studies, provide valuable insights into political and economic conditions within the Sokoto Caliphate. A. A. D. dissertations, as well as unpublished papers presented at conferences or seminars. 62 Most of these unpublished sources have similar strengths and limitations as the published works discussed earlier. It is significant to note at this point that although this study examines plantation development in Fanisau by drawing on the unpublished and published sources mentioned above, I did not possess the source material that will allow me to give a detailed comparison of the royal and private estates and to comprehensively explore, among other issues, the life and labor of the relatively few freeborn residents of the study area.
25 In explaining why the first plantations emerged in Kasar Kano, it is necessary to underline that, at least from the fourteenth century, the state played various roles in the economy. Such state intervention was influenced by the realization, on the part of the rulers (sarakuna), that wealth was important for the acquisition and consolidation of power. Indeed, the development of the state increasingly produced the need for more and more resources to maintain expanding bureaucracies. Resources were also needed for the acquisition of ceremonial materials, such as trumpets, drums, flutes, as well as exotic clothing, that were absolutely necessary for the image of the sarki and other aristocrats, called the masu sarauta.