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  • 13 - Silent Testimonies, Public Memory

  • from Part Two - The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
  • Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Cornell University, New York, Martin A. Klein, University of Toronto
  • Book:
    African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
    Published online:
    05 April 2013
    Print publication:
    13 May 2013, pp 149-163

  • Summary

    This chapter presents a case, which involves a relationship between two men, one a former slave, the other a former master. It includes sections of the interviews with Al Haj Biraan Ture, the man of slave descent, and with a descendant of his masters, Al Haj Abdu Siise. Of the people of slave descent the author interviewed, BiraanTure was the only one to openly speak of himself as a slave. There were a number of institutional practices that maintained social boundaries, the most important of which were probably the code of honor and the control exercised by the descendants of the freeborn over Muslim institutions. Both Ture and Siise were prosperous, but in other cases, both slave and master were poor, or the slave had, through hard work, become more prosperous than his former master.