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Archaeology of Slavery in East Africa on JSTOR - 3 views

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    This article discusses how slavery in Africa is an ancient practice that it can be traced back two millennia and puts emphasis on how humans were part of cargo in trades that would be conducted between Africa and Eurasia along with ivory, gold and other commodities. The article then continues to discuss the impact slavery now has on Africa (the aftermath of slavery), putting emphasis on East Africa.
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The East African slave trade | The East Indies | The Places Involved | Slavery Routes |... - 4 views

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  • In the transatlantic slave trade the demand was for labourers to work on plantations and in mines, and mostly men were captured to supply the demand
  • Slaves taken to the Middle East and North Africa were not just from Africa. Until about 1500, slaves were also bought from northern Europe, but as this supply route dried up the numbers bought from Africa increased.
  • In the eastern slave trade enslaved Africans were taken from the east coast of Africa (the modern countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and the island of Madagascar). They also came from the Savannah area (which includes countries such as Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan) and the Horn of Africa (which covers Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia). Slaves were sold to merchants from North Africa and the Middle East. The women slaves in this trade often married their masters, or had children by them and the children were often freed by their fathers. Over time, the enslaved Africans tended to become part of the local population.
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  • There are no records for the number of enslaved Africans sold before the 17th century from the Savannah area of Africa (which includes countries such as Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan) and the Horn of Africa (which covers Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia). It is estimated that in the 17th century, about 10,000 slaves per year were sold to North Africa and the Middle East. There was a large domestic slave population in this area and slavery was an accepted form of labour amongst the rulers of the different kingdoms.
  • The numbers of enslaved Africans sold to these areas increased in the late 18th century. This was because French merchants bought slaves from East Africa for the growing sugar plantations on the French owned islands in the Indian Ocean.
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Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical, ... - 1 views

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  • the aftermath of slavery in Africa
  • the aftermath of slavery in Africa has been developing rapidly
  • often through migration, negotiation of patronage ties, marriage strategies as well as religious allegiances
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  • While there has been some new work also concerning East Africa and the Horn, the topic has been less salient there.
  • Nowhere in East Africa are inequalities as stark and as clearly derived from slavery as for the Haratin in Mauritania, for example
  • The relative disinterest in ex-slaves also reflects implicitly political priorities among researchers. In the post-colonial period, the disinterest in heritages of slavery reflects the need for social cohesion and nation-building in the region’s post-independence states: the effort to focus on usable rather than painful and divisive histories.
  • It is plausible that the failure of ex-slaves to attract the attention of contemporary observers or later historians reflects a relative ease of integration for ex-slaves in colonial-era peasant societies, where political authority was often decentralized, historical memory relatively short and migration routine.
  • In contemporary debates, speakers tend to ‘externalise’ slavery by associating it with ‘the Arabs’, placing it in a dark and distant past or simply focusing on other things
  • here appears to be a need to make sure that slavery is either safely in the past or someone else’s problem.
  • In particular, it remains an open question whether the absence of up-country ex-slaves in historical research is a function of their easy ‘disappearance’ into the general population, or rather of a politically and socially conditioned process of silencing that needs examination in itself.
  • There are some impressive studies of the East African coast, where slavery was the most salient and where it could be framed within the region’s distinctive urban and Islamic history
  • It remains unclear, then, to what extent this silencing reflects an actual levelling-out of the differences between slave descendants and those of owners, whether it reflected the preferences of ex-slaves themselves, and whether it mitigated or perpetuated slave descendants’ marginal status, or perhaps did both.
  • What is clear is that hundreds of thousands of people were emerging from slavery in the East African interior in the first decades of the twentieth century, but there is so far little research asking explicitly how they did so and to what effect
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East Africa's forgotten slave trade - DW - 08/22/2019 - 3 views

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    This image depicts how Africans were traded from several parts of Africa to East Africa. This image also shows how a large number of slaves died, according to scientific evidence approximately three out of four slaves died from hunger, disease or tiredness before reaching the market.
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East African Slavery - 9 views

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  • EAST AFRICAN SLAVERY.,[REUTER'S TELEGRAM.! ADEN. FED. 20. Advices brought by the mail from Zanzibar report that on the If'th January H.M.S. Nassau and Rifleman, with part of the crew of the London, under Captain Sullivan, bombaidcd and took possession of Fort Mombazique after hve hours' engagement. The enemy had 1 < killed and 51 wounded. No Joss was suflercd by the British. Mombazi has been handed over to the Sultan of Zanzibar. H.M.S. Thetis lias captured two slavers, one containing 192 and the other 110 slaves. The Portuguese attacked a slave barracoon south ot Mozambique, containing 1,000 slave-, but we**c repulsed with loss. The Thetis subsequentlyproceeded to attack the barracoon.
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