African Voices Of The Atlantic Slave Trade

Author : Anne Caroline Bailey
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Anlo (African people)
ISBN : 0807055123

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African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Anne Caroline Bailey Pdf

It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now'--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called "the Old Slave Coast"--Share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories that were handed down through generations, Bailey finds that, although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating consequences on their history and identity. In this unprecedented and revelatory book, Bailey explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory. From the Trade Paperback edition

Author : Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107328082

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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources by Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein Pdf

Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and slave trade.

Author : Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521194709

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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources by Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein Pdf

This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade.

Author : Trevor R. Getz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429982132

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African Voices of the Global Past by Trevor R. Getz Pdf

This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500–present) from African points of view. It discusses the events and trends of global significance: the Atlantic slave system, the industrial revolution, World Wars I and II, and decolonization.

Author : Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316538784

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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods by Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein Pdf

What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, possession rituals, Arabic language sources, European missionary, administrative and court records and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. Also discussed are the methodologies that can be used to uncover the often hidden experiences of Africans embedded in these sources. This book will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa.

Author : Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1251423489

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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade by Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein Pdf

Author : James Walvin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780232041

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Crossings by James Walvin Pdf

We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing on the subject has focused on the European traders and the arrival of slaves in North America. In Crossings, eminent historian James Walvin covers these established territories while also traveling back to the story’s origins in Africa and south to Brazil, an often forgotten part of the triangular trade, in an effort to explore the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic. Reconstructing the transatlantic slave trade from an extensive archive of new research, Walvin seeks to understand and describe how the trade began in Africa, the terrible ordeals experienced there by people sold into slavery, and the scars that remain on the continent today. Journeying across the ocean, he shows how Brazilian slavery was central to the development of the slave trade itself, as that country tested techniques and methods for trading and slavery that were successfully exported to the Caribbean and the rest of the Americas in the following centuries. Walvin also reveals the answers to vital questions that have never before been addressed, such as how a system that the Western world came to despise endured so long and how the British—who were fundamental in developing and perfecting the slave trade—became the most prominent proponents of its eradication. The most authoritative history of the entire slave trade to date, Crossings offers a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history.

Author : Kwasi Konadu
Publisher : Diasporic Africa Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781937306496

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Transatlantic Africa by Kwasi Konadu Pdf

Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through African and diasporic primary sources. Based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories, archival documents, and visual evidence, the book connects those experiences to local and international slaving systems. It also tackles the themes of commodification, capitalism, abolitionism, and reparations. By integrating these views with critical interpretations, Transatlantic Africa balances intellectual rigor with broad accessibility, helping readers to think anew about how transoceanic slaving made the modern world

Author : Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107176263

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The Atlantic Slave Trade from West Central Africa, 1780–1867 by Daniel B. Domingues da Silva Pdf

This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.

Author : Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Oral history
ISBN : 1107334527

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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade by Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein Pdf

This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade.

Author : Toby Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139503587

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The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589 by Toby Green Pdf

The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity and the re-organization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable and the consequences in Africa and beyond.

Author : Aaron Spencer Fogleman,Robert Hanserd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 1606189263

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Five Hundred African Voices by Aaron Spencer Fogleman,Robert Hanserd Pdf

The importance of published accounts by African slave ship survivors is well-known but not their existence in large numbers. This volume catalogs nearly 500 discrete accounts and more than 2,500 printings of them over four centuries in numerous Atlantic languages. Short biographies of each African, print histories of the complete or partial life story, URL, and QR code links to the full text, maps, images, and more makes this volume an invaluable resource for scholars, teachers, students, and others wishing to study transatlantic slavery using African voices. Illus.

Author : Ana Lucia Araujo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350297685

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Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade by Ana Lucia Araujo Pdf

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. Ana Lucia Araujo shows that these calls for reparations have persevered over a long and difficult history. She traces the ways in which enslaved and freed individuals have conceptualized the idea of reparations since the 18th century in petitions, correspondence, pamphlets, public speeches, slave narratives, and judicial claims. Taking the reader through the era of slavery, emancipation, post-abolition, and the present day and drawing on the voices of various of enslaved peoples and their descendants, the book illuminates the multiple dimensions of the demands of reparations. This new edition boasts a new chapter on the global impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, the seismic effect of the killing of George Floyd, calls for university reparations and the dismantling of statues. Updated throughout, this edition includes primary sources, further readings, and many illustrations.

Author : Anne C. Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107193055

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The Weeping Time by Anne C. Bailey Pdf

This book traces the lives of slaves before, during, and after the largest slave auction in US history in 1859.

Author : Saidiya Hartman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429966900

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Lose Your Mother by Saidiya Hartman Pdf

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the twentieth century and reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy. There were no survivors of Hartman's lineage, nor far-flung relatives in Ghana of whom she had come in search. She traveled to Ghana in search of strangers. The most universal definition of the slave is a stranger—torn from kin and country. To lose your mother is to suffer the loss of kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as a stranger. As both the offspring of slaves and an American in Africa, Hartman, too, was a stranger. Her reflections on history and memory unfold as an intimate encounter with places—a holding cell, a slave market, a walled town built to repel slave raiders—and with people: an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa; an adolescent boy who was kidnapped while playing; a fourteen-year-old girl who was murdered aboard a slave ship. Eloquent, thoughtful, and deeply affecting, Lose Your Mother is a powerful meditation on history, memory, and the Atlantic slave trade.