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Slavery and its legacy in Ghana and the diaspora /

"Ghana--for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years--remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming from its long history of slavery and slave trading. The work assembled in this collection explores the history of slavery in Ghana a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shumway, Rebecca (Editor ), Getz, Trevor R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ghana and the transatlantic slave trade / Rebecca Shumway
  • "Tied up" : slave relics in traditional political leadership in Burugu, Northern Ghana / Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu
  • "Earth from a dead Negro's grave" : ritual technologies and mortuary realms in the eighteenth-century Gold Coast diaspora / Walter C. Rucker
  • Anti-slavery in nineteenth century Fanteland / Rebecca Shumway
  • The claims wives made : slavery and marriage in the late-nineteenth-century Gold Coast colony and protectorate / Trevor R. Getz
  • Signs of an African emancipation? Slavery and its resolution in the reports (1868-1900) of a Ghanaian pastor-Kofi Theophilus Opoku / Paul Jenkins
  • An African abolitionist on the Gold Coast : the case of Francis P. Fearon / Steffen Runkel
  • Slavery and the slave trade : a shared history or shared heritage? / Wilhelmina J. Donkoh
  • The legacy of indigenous slavery in Ghana / Akosua Adoma Perbi
  • Charged memories : the slave trade in contemporary political discourse / Bayo Holsey.