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Title: | The story of Swema: female vulnerability in nineteenth-century East Africa |
Author: | Alpers, Edward A. |
Book title: | Women and slavery in Africa |
Year: | 1983 |
Pages: | 185-219 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Kenya Zanzibar Réunion |
Subjects: | female slaves biographies (form) |
About person: | Swema |
Abstract: | This article is based on a hitherto neglected text which records the life history of a female slave, Swema. It gives insight into her former life among the Yoa and her new life among the Catholic neophytes of Zanzibar and Réunion as well as in the connecting link between them: the slave caravan. App.: 'Histoire d'une petite esclave enterrée vivante, ou l'amour filial', map, notes. |