@article{f7b3dbcf942143de8f772f39fa4aa32b,
title = "Reflections on Slavery, Seclusion and Female Labor in the Maradi Region of Niger in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries",
author = "Cooper, \{Barbara M.\}",
note = "Funding Information: Let me turn now to the region of Hausaland which interests me directly, namely the Maradi region of Niger, immediately to the north of the Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria.5 The town of Maradi itself is a mere 60 miles from the Nigerian city of Katsina. Yet the history of this region has been quite different from that of northern Nigeria. Maradi prides itself as the present home of the ' true' Hausa kings of the kingdom of Katsina, who, after being ousted from power by the forces of Usman 'dan Fodio in the early nineteenth century, set up camp in the Maradi valley in order to resist the leaders of the new emirates under Sokoto and Gwandu. Maradi was never conquered by Usman 'dan Fodio's jihadists and defined itself in opposition to the Islamic fundamentalism of the jihad. Nevertheless Maradi's rulers 4 For an excellent review of the state of the literature on this subject, see R. Roberts and S. Miers, 'The end of slavery in Africa', in Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts (eds.), The End of Slavery in Africa (Madison, 1988), 3-68. 5 This work is based upon oral interviews and archival research conducted in Niger and France and funded through a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Abroad Fellowship in Niger and France in 1988-9. Earlier drafts have been substantially reworked as a result of the remarks and questions of David Geggus, Steve Feierman and Joseph Miller. I am, of course, responsible for any errors which remain.",
year = "1994",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1017/S0021853700025962",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "35",
pages = "61--78",
journal = "The Journal of African History",
issn = "0021-8537",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "1",
}