This book is about historical and contemporary practices of slavery in Gamo highlands of southern Ethiopia.Gamo is an area in Ethiopia where slavery is not history but part of people's life until today despite the official eradication by Emperor Haile Selassie in 1942. This book describes local explanations for exclusion of "slaves", areas of their exclusion from the mainstream society, different integration mechanisms and how their situation has changed during successive political regimes of the country.