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Autore: | Farrow Anne |
Titolo: | The logbooks : Connecticut's slave ships and human memory / / Anne Farrow ; designed by Eric M. Brooks |
Pubblicazione: | Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.3/6209746 |
Soggetto topico: | Slave trade - Connecticut - History |
Slavery - Connecticut | |
Collective memory - New England | |
Soggetto geografico: | Bunce Island (Sierra Leone) History |
Persona (resp. second.): | BrooksEric M. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting |
Titolo autorizzato: | The logbooks |
ISBN: | 0-8195-7306-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807721503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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