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
- 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
- 36 Introduction:
- 37 Experiencing Fear and Despair
- 38 The Testimony of Lamine FilalouA Young Man’s Experience of Enslavement and His Struggle for Freedom in French West Africa
- 39 The Blood Men of Old Calabar – a Slave Revolt of the Nineteenth Century?
- 40 Makua Life HistoriesTestimonies on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
38 - The Testimony of Lamine FilalouA Young Man’s Experience of Enslavement and His Struggle for Freedom in French West Africa
from Part Seven - Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
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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
- 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
- 36 Introduction:
- 37 Experiencing Fear and Despair
- 38 The Testimony of Lamine FilalouA Young Man’s Experience of Enslavement and His Struggle for Freedom in French West Africa
- 39 The Blood Men of Old Calabar – a Slave Revolt of the Nineteenth Century?
- 40 Makua Life HistoriesTestimonies on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
Summary
In the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century, a number of enslaved men and women in Senegal, Guinea, and the French Soudan sought freedom in the town of Saint Louis, Senegal's colonial capital. Slave testimonies contained in missionary reports offer valuable insight into the first-hand experience of slavery through the voice of the enslaved themselves. In Lamine Filalou's testimony one can learn that his father died when Lamine was young and that authority over the family fell to his brother. This chapter explores the question of whether this brother is the child of his mother and father, a distant relation, or simply someone with high authority in the village. Lamine's story indicates that he was discovered and brought to the mission by another member of the Protestant community, Moussa Sidibé.
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- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 437 - 444Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013