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Slavery and beyond : the making of men and Chikunda ethnic identities in the unstable world of south-central Africa, 1750-1920 / by Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman.

Title
Slavery and beyond : the making of men and Chikunda ethnic identities in the unstable world of south-central Africa, 1750-1920 / by Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman.
Author
Isaacman, Allen F.
Publication
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 2004.

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Additional Authors
Isaacman, Barbara.
Description
xii, 370 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Social history of Africa
Uniform Title
Social history of Africa.
Subject
  • Crown lands > Mozambique > History
  • Kunda (African people) > Ethnic identity
  • Kunda (African people) > History
  • Kunda (African people) > Land tenure
  • Mozambique > Colonization
  • Plantations > Mozambique > History
  • Portugal > Colonies > Africa
  • Slavery > Mozambique > History
  • Zambezi River Valley > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-361) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The Chikunda on the Prazos: An Overview, 1750-1850 -- 3. Free Chikunda as Elephant Hunters, 1850-ca. 1900 -- 4. Chikunda as Porters and Canoe Men, 1850-ca. 1900 -- 5. Flight and the Search for Security: Chikunda as Transfrontiersmen, 1850-ca. 1900 -- 6. Chikwasha's Chikunda: Transfrontier Communities and the Creation of Ethnicity, 1850-ca. 1900 -- 7. Slave Hunting and the Chikunda Conquest States of the Middle Zambesi, 1870-1900: Kanyemba and the Other Warlords -- 8. The Impact of Early Colonialism on the Chikunda, 1900-1930 -- 9. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 0325002614 (cloth :alk. paper)
  • 0325002606 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003057122
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries