ABSTRACT
This paper has a strictly limited aim: to take certain representative examples of Hausa literature and quote from them those passages that relate to enslavement, slavery and the legally enslavable—in effect, pagans. It is my deliberate decision not to engage in any form of moral judgement. I prefer simply to present the material and, apart from wholly neutral comment necessary to explain the historical and literary background, I leave it to readers to draw what conclusions seem appropriate to them.
