Enslaved Africans and their descendants in Africa : life histories / edited by Martin A. Klein and Stephen J. Rockel.
| Other author | Klein, Martin A., editor, author. |
| Other author | Rockel, Stephen J., editor, author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Athens : Ohio University Press, 2025. |
| Description | xv, 416 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : Life Histories of Enslaved Africans, Their Descendants, and the Biographical Turn / Stephen J. Rockel -- Part I. Enslavement and Freedom in the Nineteenth Century -- James Will : A Narrative of Slavery and Liberation in Yorubaland and Sierra Leone / Richard Anderson -- An Eyewitness Account of Slavery in the Central Sudan : Dorugu's Narratives / Mohammed Bashir Salau -- Part II. Experiencing Enslavement and Redemption -- The Autobiography of Adrien Atiman : Freed Slave to Medical Missionary / Stephen J. Rockel -- Alfred Diban's Experience of Enslavement / Martin A. Klein -- Braiding the Life Narratives of Two Oromo Slave Children : Tolassa Wayessa and Bisho Jarsa / Sandra Rowoldt Shell -- Part III. The Lives of Women and Children -- "I have married Knowledge" : Fatmé Effendi, from Enslavement in Abyssinia to Medical School in Egypt, ca. 1828-1847 / George Michael La Rue -- "A fate as happy as mine!" : The Enslavement of Young Fadalcarim, from Taqali to Istanbul and Her Redemption in Alexandria, Egypt, ca. 1846-1856 / George Michael La Rue -- Kengni (1907-2007) : A Woman's Fate in the Cameroonian Grassfields / Ricardo Marquez García -- Part IV. Two Slavers and Two Slave Officials -- Ndiba and Mbartwa : Two Slavers among the Gbaya of Eastern Cameroon, 1859-1903 / Joseph Jules Sinang -- Pasha Aroueli : An 'Outsider' in Precolonial Bagirmi / Adam Mahamat -- Gourdo, A Female Slave Chief / Dadda Astabarka and Abdouraman Halirou -- Part V. Descendants: Silence and Forgetting -- The Predicament of Silence : The Presence of the Unspeakable in the Life of a Slave Descendant in Southwest Cameroon / Ute Röschenthaler -- Slave Status in the Cameroon Grasslands Today : The Comparison of the Life Histories of Two Bun / Moris Samen. |
| Abstract | "Unlike narratives focused on enslaved people in the Americas, Europe, or the Middle East, this edited collection highlights the lives of African slaves and their descendants who remained in Africa. The contributors chronicle lives spanning the continent, from Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon to Egypt, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and South Africa. The collection explores various forms of slavery and diverse personal trajectories, with many stories beginning in childhood enslavement and evolving into adulthood with limited chances for education or personal advancement. Notably, the accounts include figures who managed to achieve prominent roles, such as a slave who became a general and administrator, a female slave who rose to be a village chief, and a woman who became a successful obstetrician in Muslim Africa. The narratives underscore the resilience and agency of the enslaved individuals, many of whom created meaningful lives despite the constraints and stigma of both slavery and post-slavery. Some, like a medical missionary in Tanganyika and a slave convert who helped grow the Catholic Church in Burkina Faso, contributed significantly to their communities and religious institutions. Accessing these stories required rigorous research due to limited documentation, social silence surrounding slavery, and stigma associated with slave ancestry. The contributors' extensive research brings together fragmented knowledge and oral histories to provide an invaluable perspective and insight into the complex identities, struggles, and achievements of African slaves and their descendants"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780821426517 |
| Genre/form | Biographies |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| LCCN | 2025017464 |
| ISBN | 9780821426500 |
| ISBN | 0821426508 |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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