Strategies of slaves & women
Subtitle: life-stories from East/Central Africa
By: by Marcia Wright.
Publisher: L. Barber Press; J. Currey
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Slavery -- Africa, East -- History.; Women -- Africa, East -- History.
Other titles: Strategies of slaves and women.
Description: "The lives of the six principal characters encountered in this volume--five women and one man--collectively extend from the mid nineteenth to the mid twentieth century. What is most revealing is the evidence of consciousness and changing circumstances in the decades before World War I as these people went from slavery to some sort of freedom. This alternation was not necessarily by a formal act of emancipation, but all the focus characters finally belonged to or were sheltered in a Christian community with a strong antislavery ideology and the capacity to provide a base for social reconstruction."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-231) and index.