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- Title
WHAT'S IN A TALE?: SLAVERY, MEMORY AND THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, CLASS AND GENDER IN COASTAL TANZANIA.
- Authors
Hill-Yates, Erica Alane
- Abstract
Based on oral interviews conducted in the former slaving port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, this article examines the recounting of three often recalled stories concerning the experiences, of enslaved and formerly enslaved women during the East African slave trade. Considering the centrality of the themes of loss and belonging and the representation of mother and child in these stories, I argue that these tales continue to resonate with residents because they allow for the contemporary contexmalization of the slave trade and slavery on the Swahili coast. In addition, the article demonstrates that it is through the recounting of these tales that residents impart insight on the historical and contemporary intersections of race, class, gender and religious faith in town.
- Subjects
BAGAMOYO (Tanzania); EAST Africa; TANZANIA; INTERVIEWING; SLAVE trade; MOTHER-child relationship; SOCIOECONOMIC factors
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2012, Vol 19, Issue 1/2, p336
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article