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
- 19 Introduction:
- 20 The Story of Saaba
- 21 Zenneb and Saint-André’s Cruise Up the Nile to Dongola
- 22 The Ordeals of Slaves’ Flight in Tunisia
- 23 African Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Manuscript of Jean Godot
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
22 - The Ordeals of Slaves’ Flight in Tunisia
from Part Four - Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
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
- 19 Introduction:
- 20 The Story of Saaba
- 21 Zenneb and Saint-André’s Cruise Up the Nile to Dongola
- 22 The Ordeals of Slaves’ Flight in Tunisia
- 23 African Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Manuscript of Jean Godot
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
Summary
A large body of Tunisian state correspondence with European consuls, some of which is discussed in this chapter, reveals slaves' ordeals. These ordeals are a macrocosm of untold stories and experiences of enslaved Africans in the Muslim world. Although much of the literature on slavery during the modern period tends to focus on Africa and the Americas, millions of sub-Saharan Africans were enslaved in various lands of the Muslim world, including North Africa, which had been a regular destination of slave influx from several states in present-day West Africa. The chapter describes certain documents, which explain the struggles of enslaved black Africans in the Muslim context. Both the Society and European diplomats' push for abolition and sympathy for runaway slaves encouraged fugitive slaves to target European institutions such as the British consulate; however procuring one's freedom was not always easy.
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- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 239 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013