ISBN:
978-0-8214-2318-9
,
978-0-8214-4632-4 /eBook
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XVII, 334 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
DDC:
306.3/62092393550963
Schlagwort(e):
Äthiopien Südafrika
;
Oromo
;
Kind
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Gefangener
;
Missionsgeschichte
;
Mission, christliche
;
Biographische Methode
;
Quelle
Kurzfassung:
In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell traces the lives of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy and ultimately sent to Lovedale Institution, a Free Church of Scotland mission in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, for their safety. Because Scottish missionaries in Yemen interviewed each of the Oromo children shortly after their liberation, we have sixty-four, structured life histories told by the children themselves. In the historiography of slavery and the slave trade, first passage narratives are rare, groups of such narratives even more so. In this analytical group biography (or prosopography), Shell renders the experiences of the captives in detail and context that are all the more affecting for their dispassionate presentation. Comparing the children by gender, age, place of origin, method of capture, identity, and other characteristics, Shell enables new insights unlike anything in the existing literature for this region and period. Children of Hope is supplemented by exquisite graphs, maps, and illustrations that carefully detail the demographic and geographic layers of the children's origins and lives after capture. In this way, she honors the individual stories of each child while also placing them into invaluable and multifaceted contexts.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
List of illustrations-- Acknowledgements -- Introductory Ruminations -- Part I Roots: Memories of Home. Chapter 1 Ethiopia: The Lie of the Land. Chapter 2 The Family Structure of the Oromo Captives. Chapter 3 Wealth and Status of the Oromo Captives` Families. Chapter 4 Topography, Domicile, and Ethnicity of the Oromo Captives -- Part II Routes: From Capture to the Coast. Chapter 5 The Moment of Capture. Chapter 6 On the Road -- Part III Revival: From Osprey to Lovedale. Chapter 7 Interception to Aden. Chapter 8 Sojourn in the Desert and the Onward Voyage. Chapter 9 By Sea and Land to Lovedale. Chapter 10 Education at Lovedale -- Part IV Return: Forging a Future- Chapter 11 Going Home -- Part V Reflections -- Appendices. Appendix A The Variables and Authentication of the Data. Appendix B The Oromo Narratives. Appendix C Gazetteer of Place-Names in the Narratives. Appendix D "My Essay Is upon Gallaland," by Gutama Tarafo. Appendix E Repatriation Questionnaire, 1903 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 305 - 319
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