Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba: Emancipation and Slave Ancestry in the Twentieth-Century Urban Gambia

Bellagamba, Alice

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“…In keeping with recent work on urban social geography in colonial Zanzibar (Bissell 2011), I argue that the organization of urban space in Kilwa, Mikindani, and Lindi was suffused with hierarchy, but the hierarchies involved were not stable and were not controlled by colonial rulers. These diverse experiences of displacement and struggle to belong amid shifting hierarchies also connect the towns discussed here to other cases discussed in this issue (Bellagamba 2020;Gardini 2020;McDougall this issue). The article proceeds by first briefly characterizing the sites under discussion and reviewing the historical context in which their diasporic networks grew, overlaid, and faded.…”

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“Looking for Life”: Traces of Slavery in the Structures and Social Lives of Southern Swahili Towns

Becker

2020

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage

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This article traces the history of slavery and of post-slavery struggles for livelihood and status in the layout, the physical structures, and the social lives of three towns on the southern Swahili Coast: Kilwa, Mikindani, and Lindi. These towns were long surrounded by plantations that relied on the labor of enslaved people. In the first decades of the twentieth century, slave populations dissipated quickly. In towns, the colonial cash crop economy, voluntary ruralurban migration, and the decline of slave-owning elites combined to allow former slaves to assimilate and adopt new urbanite identities. Sufi orders played a central role in affording ex-slaves a respectable presence in town. Nevertheless, former slave owners and former slaves lived in different parts of these towns, former slaves' livelihoods were more precarious, and the imputation of slave origins remains offensive, even today. Indeed, the era of slavery still divides people and still engages the social imagination.

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“Looking for Life”: Traces of Slavery in the Structures and Social Lives of Southern Swahili Towns

Becker

2020

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage

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Fally Kebbeh and Mamadi Kumba: Emancipation and Slave Ancestry in the Twentieth-Century Urban Gambia

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“Looking for Life”: Traces of Slavery in the Structures and Social Lives of Southern Swahili Towns

“Looking for Life”: Traces of Slavery in the Structures and Social Lives of Southern Swahili Towns

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