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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791845303321

Autore

Greene Sandra E. <1952->

Titolo

West African narratives of slavery [[electronic resource] ] : texts from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ghana / / Sandra E. Greene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2011

ISBN

0-253-00505-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/620922667

Soggetti

Slave narratives - Ghana - History and criticism

Slavery - Ghana - History

Slave trade - Ghana - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aaron Kuku : the life history of a former slave -- Enslavement remembered -- The life history of Aaron Kuku -- The biographies of Lydia Yawo and Yosef Famfantor : life in slavery/life after abolition -- To stay or go : exploring the decisions of the formerly enslaved -- Come over and help us! : the life journey of Lydia Yawo, a freed slave -- Yosef Famfantor -- Paul Sands's diary : living with the past/constructing the present and the future -- Open secrets and sequestered stories : a diary about family, slavery, and self in southeastern Ghana -- The diary of Paul Sands : excerpts -- A kidnapping at Atorkor : the making of a community memory -- Our citizens, our kin enslaved -- Oral traditions about individuals enslaved.