Editing Senufo people (section)

===Slavery===
The Senufo people were both victims of and perpetrators of slavery as they victimized other ethnic groups by enslavement.<ref name="Lovejoy2011p170"/> They themselves bought and sold slaves to Muslim merchants, [[Ashanti people|Asante people]] and [[Baoulé people]]. As refugees from other West African ethnic groups escaped wars, states Paul Lovejoy, some of them moved into the Senufo lands, seized their lands and enslaved them.<ref name="Lovejoy2011p170">{{cite book|author=Paul E. Lovejoy|title=Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dXVFnHqhLvcC&pg=PA170 |year=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-50277-1|pages=170–171, 57–58}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Martin A. Klein|title=Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NnSmbqbtfoC&pg=PA117|year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59678-7|pages=117–124}}</ref>

The largest demand for slaves initially came from the markets of [[Sudan]], and for a long time, slave trading was one an important economic activity across the Sahel and West Africa, states [[Martin A. Klein|Martin Klein]]. Sikasso and Bobo-Dioulasso were important sources of slaves captured who were then moved to [[Timbuktu]] and [[Banamba]] on their way to the Sudanese and [[Mauritania]]n slave markets.<ref name="Klein1998p53">{{cite book|author=Martin A. Klein|title=Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NnSmbqbtfoC&pg=PA53 |year=1998|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59678-7|pages=53–58}}</ref>

Those enslaved in Senufo lands worked the land, herds and served within the home. Their owner and his dependents also had the right to have sexual intercourse with female domestic slaves. The children of a female slave inherited her slave status.<ref>{{cite book|author=Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch|editor=Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers and Joseph Calder Miller|title=Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian Ocean world, and the medieval north Atlantic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jgm69dJt4DcC&pg=PA50 |year=2007|publisher=Ohio University Press|isbn=978-0-8214-1723-2|page=50}}</ref>