From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles.

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dc.contributor.advisorSaunders, Christopheren_ZA
dc.contributor.authorShell, Sandra Rowoldten_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-06T12:06:28Z
dc.date.available2015-01-06T12:06:28Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references and index.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn 1888, eighty years after Britain ended its oceanic slave trade, a British warship liberated a consignment of Oromo child slaves in the Red Sea and took them to Aden. A year later, a further group of liberated Oromo slave children joined them at a Free Church of Scotland mission at Sheikh Othman, just north of Aden. When a number of the children died within a short space of time, the missionaries had to decide on a healthier institution for their care. After medical treatment and a further year of recuperation, the missionaries shipped sixty-four Oromo children to Lovedale Institution in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. From 1890, Lovedale baptised the children into the Christian faith, taught them and trained them. By 1910, approximately one third had died, one third had settled in the Cape of Good Hope, one third had returned to Ethiopia and one had headed for the United States. The present study is a cohort-based, longitudinal prosopography of this group of Oromo slave children, based on the core documentation of the children’s own first passage accounts, supplemented by numerous and varied independent primary sources.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationShell, S. R. (2013). <i>From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11559en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationShell, Sandra Rowoldt. <i>"From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11559en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationShell, S. 2013. From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Shell, Sandra Rowoldt AB - In 1888, eighty years after Britain ended its oceanic slave trade, a British warship liberated a consignment of Oromo child slaves in the Red Sea and took them to Aden. A year later, a further group of liberated Oromo slave children joined them at a Free Church of Scotland mission at Sheikh Othman, just north of Aden. When a number of the children died within a short space of time, the missionaries had to decide on a healthier institution for their care. After medical treatment and a further year of recuperation, the missionaries shipped sixty-four Oromo children to Lovedale Institution in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. From 1890, Lovedale baptised the children into the Christian faith, taught them and trained them. By 1910, approximately one third had died, one third had settled in the Cape of Good Hope, one third had returned to Ethiopia and one had headed for the United States. The present study is a cohort-based, longitudinal prosopography of this group of Oromo slave children, based on the core documentation of the children’s own first passage accounts, supplemented by numerous and varied independent primary sources. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles TI - From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11559 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11559
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationShell SR. From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11559en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherHistorical Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleFrom slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles.en_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen_ZA
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