The Landscapes of Slavery in Kenya

dc.contributor.author	Kiriama, Herman
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-29T12:53:41Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-29T12:53:41Z
dc.date.issued	2019-03-25
dc.description.abstract	Cultural landscapes impacted by slavery and its effects ineighteenth-century Kenya included coastal trading entrepôts,interior caravan trade routes, coastal plantation complexes,European mission stations, freed slave settlements, and runawayslave settlements. Landscapes represent the values, symbols, andmeanings that societies have imbued upon them. A culturallandscape is not only a physical place, but also encompasses thememories associated with that space. Studies of such landscapesenable understanding of the histories of peoples, places, andevents. This article works to understand how the people wholived in landscapes of slavery in Kenya perceived and interactedwith those terrains. Former slaves and their descendants usedtangible and intangible elements of landscapes to constructplaces of memory; these memories not only connect them to thelandscapes they presently occupy but also to an imaginary,ancestral homeland that they have never seen.
dc.description.sponsorship	N/A
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.1080/21619441.2019.1589711
dc.identifier.uri	https://repository.nrf.go.ke/handle/123456789/407
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Research Gate
dc.subject	Kisii University
dc.title	The Landscapes of Slavery in Kenya
dc.type	Article
dspace.entity.type	Publication

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