Children of hope : the odyssey of the Oromo slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa
Type
E-Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780821446324
Category
History
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Publication Year
2018
Publisher
Ohio University Press, United States
Subject
Oromo (African people). Slave trade. Ethiopia. South Africa--Lovedale. Child slaves.
Abstract
In Children of Hope, Sandra Rowoldt Shell details the life histories of sixty-four Oromo children who were enslaved in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth century, liberated by the British navy, and ultimately sent to a Free Church of Scotland mission in South Africa, where their stories were recorded through a series of interviews.
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