African voices of the Atlantic slave trade : beyond the silence and the shame /

It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now'--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bailey, Anne C. (Anne Caroline) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2005.
Colección:Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition.
Temas:
Slave trade > Africa, West > History.
Slave trade > America > History.
Slave trade > Ghana > History.
Anlo (African people) > Social conditions.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Esclaves > Commerce > Amérique > Histoire.
Esclaves > Commerce > Gh*ana > Histoire.
Anlo (Peuple d'Afrique) > Conditions sociales.
Esclaves > Commerce > Ghāna > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Slave trade
Sklavenhandel
Slavenhandel.
West Africa
America
Ghana
Afrika
Amerika
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : from the Middle Passage to middle quarters, Jamaica : the transformation of a personal journey
  • The incident at Atorkor : a break with the past
  • African agency in the Atlantic slave trade
  • African resistance: the slave who whipt her mistress and ganed her fredom and other oral and written tales
  • European and American agency in the Atlantic slave trade
  • The social and political impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the old Slave Coast
  • Subversion of the sacred : the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on Anlo Ewe religious organizations
  • Reparations as rememory and redress.

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