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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bailey, Anne C. (Anne Caroline)
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:
Slave trade > Africa, West > History.
Slave trade > America > History.
Slave trade > Ghana > History.
Anlo (African people) > Social conditions.
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Physical Description:289 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: from the Middle Passage to middle quarters, Jamaica: the transformation of a personal journey
  • The incident at Atorkor: a break with the past
  • African agency in the Atlantic slave trade
  • African resistance: the slave who whipt her mistress and ganed her fredom and other oral and written tales
  • European and American agency in the Atlantic slave trade
  • The social and political impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the old Slave Coast
  • Subversion of the sacred: the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on Slave Coast
  • Reparations as rememory and redress.