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Title:An Igbo Slave story of the late nineteenth century and its implications
Author:Cookey, S.J.S.ISNI
Year:1972
Periodical:Ikenga: Journal of African Studies
Volume:1
Issue:2
Pages:1-9
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:Igbo
slave trade
female slaves
biographies (form)
Abstract:Igboland remained closed to literate visitors until towards the end of the nineteenth century. One of the major themes of Igbo history - the development of the slave trade and its political and social impact on the former Eastern Region of Nigeria - would have to be studied on the basis of oral traditions. This is the case with the brief story of an Igbo slave girl from Umoji near Onitsha, recorded by Archdeacon D.C. Crowther at Okrika in 1880. The story of this slave girl, named M'beke, shows that Igbo-speaking people on the mainland became absorbed in Eastern delta Ijo societies. The settlement of the Eastern Delta marked the beginning of a market-oriented economy whereby the Igbo initially responded to the need for slaves and foodstuffs in the delta which they exchanged for salt and dried fish. Later the scale of the exchange was boosted by the opening and expansion of the Atlantic slave trade. When an end was put to the Atlantic slave trade around the middle of the nineteenth century, the old Igbo-Delta relationship did not change. Map, notes.
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