The authors lead the reader into the insecure world of East Africa as freed slaves sought new ways of supporting themselves.
IllustrationsAcknowledgments1Introduction12The Chikunda on the Prazos: An Overview, 1750-1850393Free Chikunda as Elephant Hunters, 1850-ca. 1900834Chikunda as Porters and Canoe Men, 1850-ca. 19001255Flight and the Search for Security: Chikunda as Transfrontiersmen, 1850-ca. 19001636Chikwasha's Chikunda: Transfrontier Communities and the Creation of Ethnicity, 1850-ca. 19001977Slave Hunting and the Chikunda Conquest States of the Middle Zambesi, 1870-1900: Kanyemba and the Other Warlords2338The Impact of Early Colonialism on the Chikunda, 1900-19302819Conclusion323Glossary of Select Local Terms337Bibliography345Index363