Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability

by Elisabeth McMahon

Book Overview

Examining the process of abolition on the island of Pemba off the East African coast in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honor among all classes of people on the island. By examining the social vulnerability of ex-slaves and the former slave-owning elite caused by the Abolition order of 1897, this study argues that moments of resistance on Pemba reflected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107533783
• ISBN13: 9781107533783
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"