Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword Beyond the Printed Word
- Introduction Finding the African Voice
- Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
- 1 Introduction:
- 2 Oral Traditions about Individuals Enslaved in Asante
- 3 “The Little Things that Would Please Your Heart...”
- 4 Tales of Cowries, Money, and Slaves
- 5 Oral Accounts of Slave-Master Relations from Cameroon Noncentralized and Centralized Polities (1750–1950)
- 6 “He Who Is without Family Will Be the Subject of Many Exactions”
- 7 Common Themes, Individual Voices
- 8 Slavery in Kano Emirate of Sokoto Caliphate as Recounted
- Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
- Part Three Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
- Part Four Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
7 - Common Themes, Individual Voices
Memories of Slavery around a Former Slave Plantation in Mingoyo, Tanzania
from Part One - Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword Beyond the Printed Word
- Introduction Finding the African Voice
- Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
- 1 Introduction:
- 2 Oral Traditions about Individuals Enslaved in Asante
- 3 “The Little Things that Would Please Your Heart...”
- 4 Tales of Cowries, Money, and Slaves
- 5 Oral Accounts of Slave-Master Relations from Cameroon Noncentralized and Centralized Polities (1750–1950)
- 6 “He Who Is without Family Will Be the Subject of Many Exactions”
- 7 Common Themes, Individual Voices
- 8 Slavery in Kano Emirate of Sokoto Caliphate as Recounted
- Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
- Part Three Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
- Part Four Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
Summary
A hundred years ago, Mingoyo was the site of a major slave plantation owned by the al-Barwani, a family of Zanzibari-Omani slave traders, and their grandson still owns a large coconut grove in the village. This chapter presents a list of six extracts from interviews, which offers different memories of this plantation and of its significance after the end of slavery. The six interviewees described in the chapter are Bibi Esha Issa Baharia, Mohamed Halfan Nassor bin Hamisi Barwani, Sefu Selemani Makoreka, Rajabu Feruzi Ismaili, Sharifu Shehan Zaina, and Mzee Juma Sudi bin Juma. The interview shows that the present-day coexistence of the descendants of both slaves and owners in the villages results from a series of renegotiations of the hierarchical relationships of the slave-trading era. The interviews display a way of speaking about the past that is different from both professional historians and written sources of the period.
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- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 71 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013