Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africalooks at the perceptions of one of the main themes of African history: slavery. There was no single form of slavery, and the line between enslaved and nonslave labor was fine. This book challenges the assertion that domestic slavery increased in Africa as the result of the international trade. Contents: - Introduction by Henri MÉdard - Language Evidence of Slavery to the Eighteenth Century by David Schoenbrun - The Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi 18601900 by Jan-Georg Deutsch - Slavery & Forced Labour in the Eastern Congo 18501910 by David Northrup - Legacies of Slavery in North West Uganda 'The One-Elevens' by Mark Leopold - Human Booty in Buganda: The Seizure of People in War, c.1700c.1900 by Richard Reid - Stolen People & Autonomous Chiefs in Nineteenth-Century Buganda by Holly Hanson - Women's Experiences of Slavery in Late Nineteenth- & Early Twentieth-Century Uganda by Michael W. Tuck - Slavery & Social Oppression in Ankole 18901940 by Edward I. Steinhart - The Slave Trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the Beginning of German Colonisation 18901906 by Jean-Pierre Chretien - Bunyoro & the Demography of Slavery Debate by Shane DoyleMédard, Henri is the author of 'Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa', published 2008 under ISBN 9780821417935 and ISBN 0821417932.