This book demonstrates the links between emancipation and the redefinition of honour among all classes of people on the island of Pemba.

Examining the complex history of slavery in East Africa, this text focuses on the region that came under German colonial rule. Divided into three parts, Deutsch highlights the role played by the slaves in the process of emancipation.

The African Diaspora was a consequence of the enslavement in the interior of West Africa. This work examines the conditions of slavery facing Muslims and converts to Islam both in the central Sudan and in the broader diaspora of Africans. It considers the consequences of European colonization.

In the 19th century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet little is known about them. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Mediterranean.