Tracing Their “Middle” Passages
Slave Accounts from the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23424601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hiroyuki Suzuki (0000-0002-0410-6940, corresponding author), Hideaki Suzuki (0000-0002-5262-1939) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 307-318 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9781139022552.034 |
| OpenAlex | W1491653406 |
| ISBN | 9781139022552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
This chapter describes the story of a young Fula-speaking woman known as Saaba who was sold as a slave in the Algerian Sahara in 1877. Many people had arrived in the Sahara as slaves as a result of the endemic wars that plagued the middle Niger River region in the second half of the nineteenth century. Concealing slavery was important at this time when, on one hand, colonial leaders had publically pledged themselves to abolishing slavery in Africa, and on the other, when slave-traders sold captives from Saaba's homeland, the middle Niger River region, despite the fact that they were freeborn Muslims like her. Saaba was one of many who received neither the emancipation promised by colonial rule nor the full protection and rights of the precolonial legal system. A witness and victim of criminal activities on both sides of the colonial situation, Saaba was destined to oblivion.
Ancient history · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Emancipation · Ethnology · Geography · Homeland · Political science · Politics · Witness · African Studies and Geopolitics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
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The Swahili Coast
Asian and African Systems of Slavery
Plantation slavery on the east coast of Africa
Feasts and riot
Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1795-1880
Three Swahili Women
The History of the Indian Navy (1613–1863)
The Navy and the Slave Trade
Children in Slavery through the Ages
Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
The Slave Trade of Eastern Africa
The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar
The highlands of Æthiopia
Plantation Slavery on the East Coast of Africa
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |