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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

By
Klara Boyer-Rossol
Edited by
Alice Bellagamba ,
Sandra E. Greene  and
Martin A. Klein
Alice Bellagamba
Affiliation:
University of Milan-Bicocca
Sandra E. Greene
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
Martin A. Klein
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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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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southwestern NigeriaWest African coastnortheastern Brazilslave rebellionsAtlantic slave tradeBritish colonial court
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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 466 - 480
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2013

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