Female Seclusion in the Aftermath of Slavery on the Southern Swahili Coast: Transformations of Slavery in Unexpected Places

[...]it is intimately tied to the question of the silence or guarded, coded speech surrounding slavery.\n Our conversations took place about eighty years after official abolition in Tanganyika, and about a hundred years after slave labor regimes had begun to crumble, but, as the preceding ages have...

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Published in:The International journal of African historical studies Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 209 - 230
Main Author: Becker, Felicitas
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York Boston University African Studies Center 01.01.2015
Boston University
Subjects:
20th century
Abolition of slavery
African history
African languages
Antecedents
Archives & records
Collective memory
Emancipation of slaves
Females
Historians
Silence
Slave trade
Slavery
Social isolation
Social memory
Speech
Studies
Swahili language
Africa
ISSN:0361-7882, 2326-3016
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Summary:[...]it is intimately tied to the question of the silence or guarded, coded speech surrounding slavery.\n Our conversations took place about eighty years after official abolition in Tanganyika, and about a hundred years after slave labor regimes had begun to crumble, but, as the preceding ages have sought to show, the memory of slavery surrounded them when they grew up. [...]I think it is important to identify reasons why social memory should, on certain questions, depart from or skew the facts, such as the status implications of slave antecedents discussed above, which made owning up to such antecedents problematic.
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ISSN:0361-7882
2326-3016