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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808830703321

Autore

Bailey Anne C (Anne Caroline)

Titolo

African voices of the Atlantic slave trade : beyond the silence and the shame / / Anne C. Bailey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Beacon Press, c2005

ISBN

1-299-56285-X

0-8070-5519-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

306.3/62/096

Soggetti

Slave trade - Africa, West - History

Slave trade - America - History

Slave trade - Ghana - History

Anlo (African people) - Social conditions

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. 263-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- contents -- Chapter 1: From the Middle Passage to Middle Quarters, Jamaica: The Transformation of a Personal Journey -- Chapter 2: The Incident at Atorkor: A Break with the Past -- Chapter 3: African Agency in the Atlantic Slave Trade: Realities and Perceptions -- Chapter 4: African Resistance: The Slave Who Whipt her mistress and Ganed Her Fredom and Other Oral and Written Tales -- Chapter 5: European and American Agency in the Atlantic Slave Trade: From Raid and Trade to Operational Breakdown -- Chapte r 6: The Social and Political Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Old Slave Coast -- Chapter 7: Subversion of the Sacred: The Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Anlo Ewe Religious Organizations -- Chapter 8: Reparations as Rememory and Redress -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.