Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword Beyond the Printed Word
- Introduction Finding the African Voice
- Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
- Part Three Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
- Part Four Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- 36 Introduction:
- 37 Experiencing Fear and Despair
- 38 The Testimony of Lamine FilalouA Young Man’s Experience of Enslavement and His Struggle for Freedom in French West Africa
- 39 The Blood Men of Old Calabar – a Slave Revolt of the Nineteenth Century?
- 40 Makua Life HistoriesTestimonies on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
40 - Makua Life HistoriesTestimonies on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar
from Part Seven - Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword Beyond the Printed Word
- Introduction Finding the African Voice
- Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
- Part Three Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
- Part Four Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- 36 Introduction:
- 37 Experiencing Fear and Despair
- 38 The Testimony of Lamine FilalouA Young Man’s Experience of Enslavement and His Struggle for Freedom in French West Africa
- 39 The Blood Men of Old Calabar – a Slave Revolt of the Nineteenth Century?
- 40 Makua Life HistoriesTestimonies on Slavery and the Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
Summary
In Madagascar, the history of slavery and the slave trade has long been treated with silence. The Makua was the only group of former slaves that has been considered as an ethnic group in Madagascar. The slaves imported to Madagascar were not all Makua, but in Sakalava country on the west coast, this term is used for all slaves imported from Africa. The Norwegian Missionary Society, founded in 1842 by the Lutherans, sent its first missionaries to Antananarivo in 1866, four years after the re-opening of the Kingdom of Madagascar to Christian missionaries. Kalamba Mahihitse Josefa's account tells us that he was able to take advantage of mission education to become a teacher in a Makua village. The life histories of Josef and Mikal trace their journey in slavery from Mozambique to Madagascar, probably dating to the late 1860s.
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- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 466 - 480Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013