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SUMMARY:Post-Slavery Societies Workshop - Dr FM Becker (Faculty of History
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DTSTART:20141216T100000Z
DTEND:20141216T170000Z
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CONTACT:for Dr FM Becker
DESCRIPTION:16-17 December 2014\n\nThe rapid rise and fall of plantation s
 lavery in East Africa between the late eighteenth and early twentieth cent
 uries profoundly affected East African history during this period. But sla
 very quickly disappears from sight once the labour regime the term denoted
  disintegrated. Neither former slaves nor colonial rulers were keen to ven
 t the issue. At independence\, too\, the history of slavery\, while far fr
 om absent\, was evoked less readily in East than in West Africa.\n\nYet we
  know that slavery lingered. It shaped colonial agricultural policy in Ken
 ya and Zanzibar\, and in the early 1960s individual slave antecedents were
  still widely known and their status implications significant. The rhetori
 cal invocation of the history of slavery formed part of Zanzibar's vicious
  political contests around independence\, and the experience of slavery al
 so informed the growth of both Muslim and Christian communities. Moreover\
 , existing work on the aftermath of slavery makes clear is that paths to e
 mancipation and settlements between ex-masters and ex-slaves differed grea
 tly between places. See\, for instance\, the persistence of slavery-derive
 d status differences in Lamu versus their obsolescence in Lindi and their 
 ambivalent\, toxic afterlife in Zanzibar.\n\nThis workshop is convened so 
 as to focus in on slavery as a factor in the history of East African socie
 ties after official emancipation and think about its ramifications broadly
 \, to explore these variations and their causes\, and to further trace the
  lingering presence of slavery in the history of the region. \n
LOCATION:Newnham College
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