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Larson, Pier. 2000. History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822.
Africa Today, March, 2005 by Brown, Margaret L.
Larson, Pier. 2000. HISTORY AND MEMORY IN THE AGE OF ENSLAVEMENT: BECOMING MERINA IN HIGHLAND MADAGASCAR, 1770 1822. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann. 414 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
How do the processes of slavery affect the people who are left behind? This is the central question motivating Pier Larson's ambitious and thought-provoking analysis of the impact of slavery on the peoples of highland Madagascar in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He traces significant social changes in Madagascar to two interacting forces: the intensification of Madagascar's ...
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