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Title: | Priest Planters and Slavers of Zage (Ethiopia) |
Author: | Ahmad, Abdussamad H. |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 543-556 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | slavery coffee History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Labor and Employment Religion and Witchcraft |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/221360 |
Abstract: | Around the turn of the 20th century, the Täwahdo Orthodox Christian priests of Zägé in Gojjam, northwest Ethiopia, developed a system of coffee cultivation by employing slave labour. The slaves were brought from the Gumuz country on the Ethio-Sudanese borderlands to work on plantation fields. Coffee production reached a peak in the first three and a half decades of the 20th century, but its earliest origins can be traced to the early 19th century. The end of slavery came only with the Italian occupation of Ethiopia in 1935. This article analyses coffee cultivation in Zägé, the internal slave trade from the Gumuz lowlands to the northern highlands of Gojjam, and coffee export from Zägé in the period 1900-1935. Notes, ref. |