Bailey, Anne C

African voices of the Atlantic slave trade : beyond the silence and the shame / Anne C. Bailey. - 264 pages : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.

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.

9789766372545

2004015082


Slave trade--History.--Africa, West
Slave trade--History.--America
Slave trade--History.--Ghana
Anlo (African people)--Social conditions.

HT1331 / .B34 2007

306.3/62/096