Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Maps & Tables ix
4. Notes on Contributors x
5. Acknowledgement xii
6. Introduction 1
7. One. Violence, Marginality, Scorn & Honour Language evidence of slavery to the eighteenth century 38
8. Two. Notes on the Rise of Slavery & Social Change in Unyamwezi c. 1860–1900 76
9. Three. Slavery & Forced Labour in the Eastern Congo 1850–1910 111
10. Four. Legacies of Slavery in North West Uganda The story of the ‘One-Elevens’ 124
11. Five Human Booty in Buganda: Some observations on the seizure of people in war, c.1700–1890 145
12. Six. Stolen People & Autonomous Chiefs in Nineteenth-Century Buganda: The social consequences of non-free followers 161
13. Seven. Women’s Experiences of Enslavement & Slavery in Late Nineteenth- & Early Twentieth-Century Uganda 174
14. Eight. Slavery & Other Forms of Social Oppression in Ankole 1890–1940 189
15. Nine. The Slave Trade in Burundi & Rwanda at the Beginning of German Colonisation 1890–1906 210
16. Ten. Bunyoro & the Demography of Slavery Debate: Fertility, kinship & assimilation 231
17. References 252
18. Index 269