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UNINA9910460189403321 |
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Farrow Anne |
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Titolo |
The logbooks : Connecticut's slave ships and human memory / / Anne Farrow ; designed by Eric M. Brooks |
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Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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Driftless Connecticut Series Book |
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Soggetti |
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Slave trade - Connecticut - History |
Slavery - Connecticut |
Collective memory - New England |
Electronic books. |
Bunce Island (Sierra Leone) History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; The Logbooks; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; ONE: RECOVERING THE STORY; Cleared for Africa; Shadows on the Wall; Creating a Record; "How Did You Find Me?"; TWO: THE HAUNTED LAND; Meeting the Slave Traders; Another Century, Not My Own; The Past in Dreams; History for an Abandoned Place; The Screaming Man; The Story of a Stone; The Slaughterhouse; THREE: TROUBLE IN MIND; A Book with Many Bookmarks; A Platform for Memory; The Pain That Survives; The Fragile Power; History That Won't End ; Color photographs follow page ; FOUR: A HISTORY THAT DOESN'T "FIT"; Back to Africa |
To Live in Peril on the SeaNot a Word but a World; The Slave Trade's Men in Full; FIVE: SEPARATIONS; A Visit to Madina; This Far, and No Further; Legacy; Lost and Found; Our Choice Is the Truth or Nothing; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Reading Guide |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting |
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