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
6 - “He Who Is without Family Will Be the Subject of Many Exactions”
A Case from Senegal
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
This chapter presents a case, which involves a relationship between two men, one a former slave, the other a former master. It includes sections of the interviews with Al Haj Biraan Ture, the man of slave descent, and with a descendant of his masters, Al Haj Abdu Siise. Of the people of slave descent the author interviewed, BiraanTure was the only one to openly speak of himself as a slave. There were a number of institutional practices that maintained social boundaries, the most important of which were probably the code of honor and the control exercised by the descendants of the freeborn over Muslim institutions. Both Ture and Siise were prosperous, but in other cases, both slave and master were poor, or the slave had, through hard work, become more prosperous than his former master.
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- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 65 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013