Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

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Slavery was more important in the Great Lakes region than often has been assumed and Africans from the interior played a more complex role than was previously recognised. These ten 10 studies by the most prominent historians of the region. They reveal the connections between the peoples of the region as well as their encounters with conquering Europeans. Slavery was not a uniform phenomenon and the line between enslaved and non-slave labour was fine.This book challenges the assertion that domestic slavery increased in Africa as the result of the international trade. HENRI MEDARD is a Lecturer in History at the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and Cemaj; SHANE DOYLE is a Lecturer in History at Leeds University Contributors include: DAVID SCHOENBRUN, JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH, MARK LEOPOLD, RICHARD REID, HOLLY HANSON, EDWARD I. STEINHART, JEAN-PIERRE CHRETIEN & SHANE DOYLE North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP Cover Series Page Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Maps & Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Violence, Marginality, Scorn & Honour: Language Evidence of Slavery to the Eighteenth Century 2. Notes on the Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi, c. 1860–1900 3. Slavery & Forced Labour in the Eastern Congo, 1850–1910 4. Legacies of Slavery in North West Uganda: The Story of the ‘One-Elevens’ 5. Human Booty in Buganda: Some Observations on the Seizure of People in War, c.1700–1890 6. Stolen People & Autonomous Chiefs in Nineteenth-Century Buganda: The Social Consequences of Non-free Followers 7. Women’s Experiences of Enslavement & Slavery in Late Nineteenth & Early Twentieth-Century Uganda 8. Slavery & Other Forms of Social Oppression in Ankole, 1890–1940 9. The Slave Trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the Beginning of German Colonisation, 1890–1906 10. Bunyoro & the Demography of Slavery Debate: Fertility, Kinship & Assimilation References Index