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Author McMahon, Elisabeth

Title Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa : From Honor to Respectability
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages)
Series African Studies
African Studies
Contents Cover; Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa; 1 Introduction; Slavery on the East African Coast; From Honor to Respectability; Going To the Courts; SOURCES; Chapter Outlines; 2 Mzuri Kwao and Slavery in East Africa; The Slave Trade on the East African Coast; Slavery and Emancipation; Vulnerability; Conclusion; 3 Reputation and Disputing in the Courts; Courts on Pemba; Judges and Interlocutors in the Courts; Evidence and Oaths
Disputes in the CourtsPublicizing Reputation; Conclusion; 4 Reputation, Heshima, and Community; Reputation; Leisure and Labor; Displaying Heshima; Heshima and Islam; Reputation, Contracts, and the Courts; Conclusion; 5 Changing Landscapes of Power; Reordering Heshima; Fighting for Honor, Disputing for Respect; "Civilizing" Power; Invisible Landscape of Power; Uchawi on Pemba; Reinterpreting the Archives; Conclusion; 6 Mitigating Vulnerability through Kinship; Friendship and Networked Kin; Family Ties Among Ex-Slaves; Concubines; Claiming and Denying Kinship; Conclusion; Conclusion
Resistance or Vulnerability among WomenShifting Landscapes of Power; Witchcraft, Power, and Slavery; Why Pemba?; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Interviews; House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers; Newspapers; Friends House Library, London (FIM); National Archives (Formerly the Public Records Office), London (PRO); Rhodes House, Oxford (UMCA); Zanzibar National Archives, Tanzania (ZNA); Pemba Branch of Zanzibar National Archives (PNA); Published Reports; Secondary Sources and Published Primary Sources; Index; Series
Summary Demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island of Pemba
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Slavery -- Africa, Eastern -- History
Slavery -- Tanzania -- Pemba -- History
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Africa, Eastern -- History
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Tanzania -- Pemba -- History
Slavery -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Slavery -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Sklaverei
Freigelassener
Emanzipation
Sozialer Wandel
Bewältigung
Eastern Africa
Tansania
Pemba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012042700
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