Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa /

"Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa looks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history: slavery. There was no single form of slavery, and the line between enslaved and nonslave labor was fine. This book challenges the assertion that domestic slavery increased in...

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Other Authors: Médard, Henri (Editor), Doyle, Shane (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : James Currey, 2016.
Series:Eastern African studies (London, England)
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Table of Contents:
  • Violence, marginality, scorn & honour : language evidence of slavery to the eighteenth century / David Schoenbrun
  • Notes on the rise of slavery & social change in Unyamwezic, c.1860-1900 / Jan-Georg Deutsch
  • Slavery & forced labour in the eastern Congo / David Northrup
  • Legacies of slavery in north west Uganda : the story of the 'One-Elevens' / Mark Leopold
  • Human booty in Buganda : some observations on the seizure of people in war, c.1700-1890 / Richard Reid
  • Stolen people & autonomous chiefs in nineteenth-century Buganda : the social consequences of non-free followers / Holly Hanson
  • Women's experiences of enslavement & slavery in late nineteenth & early twentieth-century Uganda / Michael W. Tuck
  • Slavery & other forms of social oppression in Ankole : 1890-1940 / Edward I. Steinhart
  • The slave trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the beginning of German colonisation : 1890-1906 / Jean-Pierre Chrétien
  • Bunyoro & the demography of slavery debate : fertility, kinship & assimilation / Shane Doyle.