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Article: Jan-Georg Deutsch, Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa, c. 1884-1914.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2008
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JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH, Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa, c. 1884-1914. Oxford: James Currey; Dar es Salaam, Mkuki na Nyota; Athens, OH: Ohio University Press (hb 55.00 [pounds sterling]-978 0 852 55986 4 and pb 17.95 [pounds sterling]-978 0 852 55985 7). 2006, 320 pp.
As indicated by its title, Jan-Georg Deutsch's study of slavery under German rule in mainland Tanzania has a very clear argument. When the Germans took over this territory, it contained over 400,000 slaves, concentrated along its coast and in the central region around Tabora, where they formed a very high proportion of the population. Yet shortly after German expulsion from East ...