SLAVERY, SLAVE TRADE AND MANUMISSION IN GOJJAM, ETHIOPIA, 1940S-1950S.
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چکیده
Like in other African countries, Ethiopia slavery and slave trade were practiced for centuries had been endemic to the society In this article, I have made an attempt bring out efforts of different emperors, particularly Emperor Haile Sellassie’s period order regulate prohibit discuss existence institutions practice until 1950s. The Ethiopian rulers or slaves failed owe several reasons. Anyway, most serious laws making beginning end institution came 1920s. counter European criticism, Rastafari issued edict 1923 1924 imposing heavy penalties on without, however, abolishing legal status itself. Later, became a signatory ‘Slavery Convention 1926.’ official policy government against trade, did little stop regional warlords from continuing raid borderlands slaves. continuation trading itself into 1930s, involvement state continued use royal court directly contrary public statements Sellassie commitments state. Immediately after evacuation Italian although slaves, it flourish. Even 1942, he punishment those who involved either capturing kidnapping, selling Nonetheless, does not mean that end. For this, discovered archival evidence Debre Markos Administrative Office Higher Court House Eastern Gojjam Zone, Dangla Metekel administrative offices. Accordingly, archives three categories: first deals with people accused catching, basis eyewitness was punished seven twenty years imprisonment. second category is dealing kidnapping individuals as money but lack witnesses, pardoned set free. third phase connected intent sell them because absence purchaser, treated brutally. sources are critically collected, scrutinize, analyzed their validities cross-checked one other. Finally, historical research, paper based systematic selection, collection, analysis documents, manuscripts, secondary both published unpublished.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International journal of multidisciplinary research and studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2640-7272']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33826/ijmras/v05i06.1