Title: 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.
Subjects: History, Slavery, Women, Slavery, africa, Women, africa, Slavery, history, Women, history, Women, history, modern period, 1600-, Africa, east, history
Places: East Africa