Crossing memories : slavery and African diaspora / edited by Ana Lucia Araujo, Mariana P. Candido, Paul E. Lovejoy.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Araujo, Ana Lucia Candido, Mariana P. (Mariana Pinho), 1975- Lovejoy, Paul E.
Language:	English
Published:	Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:	Slavery > History > Congresses. Slave trade > Africa > History > Congresses. Memory > Social aspects > Congresses. African diaspora > Congresses.
Genre:	Congresses.
Physical Description:	xii, 297 pages : illustrations
Format:	Book

Contents:

In the empire of forgetting : collective memory of the slave trade and slavery / Bogumil Jewsiewicki
Personal memory and the collective experience of the slave trade in the autobiography of Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano / Paul E. Lovejoy
"The 'Brazilians' are us" : identity and gender in the memory of the Atlantic slave trade in Ketu, Benin / Lorelle Semley
Competition over "sites of memory" : Le Morne Brabant and Creole identity in Mauritius / Sandra Carmignani
Forgetting and remembering the Atlantic slave trade : the legacy of Brazilian slave merchant Francisco Felix de Souza / Ana Lucia Araujo
Scattered memories : the intra-Caribbean slave trade to colonial Spanish America, 1700-1750 / Nadine Hunt
Voices of those who testified on slavery in Kano Emirate / Mohammed Bashir Salau
Life stories and ancestor debts : "Creole Malagasy" in eighteenth-century Virginia / Wendy Wilson-Fall
Tracing Benguela identity to the homeland / Mariana P. Candido
Art and the history of African slave folias in Brazil / Mariza de Carvalho Soares
"So that God forgives the former masters" : salvation through manumission in Ottoman Algeria / Yacine Daddi Addoun.