Martin Klein Author & Editor

Martin Klein's research has focused on slavery and the slave trade in French West Africa for 50 years, as well as colonial rule and Islam. His most important book is Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (Cambridge 1998), which was given an honorable mention in the competition for the Herskovits prize of the African Studies Association. He also wrote the Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition (2d edition. Lanham, MD 2014). He has edited Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia (Madison, WI 1993), Women and Slavery in Africa (with Clare Robertson, Madison, WI 1983) and Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa (with Suzanne Miers, London, 1998). He has more recently co-edited with Alice Bellagamba and Sandra E. Greene African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade (2 vols., Cambridge, 2013 and 2016), The Bitter Legacy: African Slavery Past and Present (Princeton NJ, 2013) and African Slaves, African Masters: Politics, Memories, Social Life (Trenton, NJ, 2017). Klein has written more than 60 scholarly articles and book chapters, countless book reviews and articles in reference books. He has served as President of the African Studies Association (USA) and the Canadian Association of African Studies and was a recipient of the ASA's Distinguished Africanist Award.