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Article: Slavery and Beyond: The Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750-1920.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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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 Mien F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2004. Pp. xii, 370. $29.95.)
The Chikunda were slaves who served as soldiers on the prazos, the estates established by Portuguese colonists in the Zambesi Valley of Mozambique during the seventeenth century. Their lives as military slaves, success in creating a distinct identity, and use of that identity to fashion new lives as hunters, boatmen, and leaders of independent communities after the nineteenth-century abolition of slavery are the subjects of this book. ...