West African Narratives Of Slavery

Author : Sandra E. Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253222947

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West African Narratives of Slavery by Sandra E. Greene Pdf

Slavery in Africa existed for hundreds of years before it was abolished in the late 19th century. Yet, we know little about how enslaved individuals, especially those who never left Africa, talked about their experiences. Collecting never before published or translated narratives of Africans from southeastern Ghana, Sandra E. Greene explores how these writings reveal the thoughts, emotions, and memories of those who experienced slavery and the slave trade. Greene considers how local norms and the circumstances behind the recording of the narratives influenced their content and impact. This unprecedented study affords unique insights into how ordinary West Africans understood and talked about their lives during a time of change and upheaval.

Author : Sandra E. Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253026026

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Slave Owners of West Africa by Sandra E. Greene Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to this day.

Author : Philip De Armond Curtin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 0783797796

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Africa remembered: narratives by West Africans from the era of the slave trade by Philip De Armond Curtin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : OCLC:974293604

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Africa Remembered by Anonim Pdf

Author : Omar Ibn Said
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299249533

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A Muslim American Slave by Omar Ibn Said Pdf

Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said’s narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction, contextual essays and historical commentary by leading literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora, photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians

Author : Portia Owusu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000766547

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Spectres from the Past by Portia Owusu Pdf

Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery from literary narratives. The book explores slavery in contemporary West African and African-American literature by looking at the politics of history and memory. It interrogates notions of History and memory by considering the possibility that shared traumas, such as West African and African-American experiences of slavery, can be remembered and historicised differently, according to critical factors such as socio-economic realities, cultural beliefs and familial traditions. At the heart of the book are compelling and new readings of slavery in six literary narratives that draws on cultural philosophies, musicology and linguistics to demonstrate diverse and unusual ways that Black writers in West Africa and North America write about slavery in literature.

Author : Alice Bellagamba,Sandra E. Greene,Martin A. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Audrey Fisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827591

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The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative by Audrey Fisch Pdf

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.

Author : Laura T. Murphy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231535755

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Survivors of Slavery by Laura T. Murphy Pdf

Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the United States, detailing the horrors of a system that forces people to work without pay and against their will, under the threat of violence, with little or no means of escape. Representing a variety of circumstances in diverse contexts, these survivors are the Frederick Douglasses, Sojourner Truths, and Olaudah Equianos of our time, testifying to the widespread existence of a human rights tragedy and the urgent need to address it. Through storytelling and firsthand testimony, this anthology shapes a twenty-first-century narrative that many believe died with the end of slavery in the Americas. Organized around such issues as the need for work, the punishment of defiance, and the move toward activism, the collection isolates the causes, mechanisms, and responses to slavery that allow the phenomenon to endure. Enhancing scholarship in women's studies, sociology, criminology, law, social work, and literary studies, the text establishes a common trajectory of vulnerability, enslavement, captivity, escape, and recovery, creating an invaluable resource for activists, scholars, legislators, and service providers.

Author : Venture Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387335477

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A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture; A Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America by Venture Smith Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Sojourner Truth,Harriet Jacobs,Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486136103

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Three Narratives of Slavery by Sojourner Truth,Harriet Jacobs,Mary Prince Pdf

Straightforward, yet often poetic, accounts of the battle for freedom, these memoirs by three courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of slavery, their rebellion against injustice, and their determination to attain equality.

Author : Olaudah Equiano
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781513276021

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano Pdf

A first-person narrative of Olaudah Equiano’s journey from his native Africa to the New World, that follows his capture, introduction to Christianity and eventual release. His story is an eye-opening depiction of personal resilience in the face of structural oppression. Olaudah Equiano’s origins are rooted in West Africa’s Eboe district, which is modern-day Nigeria. He details the shocking events that led up to his kidnapping and subsequent trade into slavery. His journey starts at 11 years old, forcing him to come of age in a society that abuses him at every turn. During his plight, he attempts to find new ways to survive, educating himself and eventually formulating a plan to obtain his freedom. In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the author illustrates the harsh realities of slavery. Upon its release, the book was well-received and translated into multiple languages including German and Dutch. It set the precedent for many first-person narratives that would highlight their own unfathomable experiences. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is both modern and readable.

Author : Sitiki
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813047959

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The Odyssey of an African Slave by Sitiki Pdf

Recently discovered as a hand-written document in the Buckingham Smith Collection at the New York Historical Society, this remarkable first-person narrative traces the life of Sitiki, whose name was changed to Jack Smith after his enslavement in America. Captured and sold into slavery in Africa as a five-year-old, Sitiki traveled to America as a cabin boy. Eventually sold by the ship's captain to Josiah Smith of Savannah, Georgia, he lived there and in Connecticut with his new master. Captured by the British during the War of 1812, he was returned to the Smiths, to be freed only after the Civil War. He went on to become the first black Methodist minister in St. Augustine, Florida, where he established his own church. Patricia Griffin does not leave the story at the conclusion of the slave narrative, but explores Sitiki's experiences and places them in clear and valuable context. She presents the narrative unencumbered, allowing Sitiki’s authority, compassion, and personality to speak for itself.

Author : Jermaine O. Archer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135855130

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Antebellum Slave Narratives by Jermaine O. Archer Pdf

Though America experienced an increase in a native-born population and an emerging African-American identity throughout the nineteenth century, African culture did not necessarily dissipate with each passing decade. Archer examines the slave narratives of four key members of the abolitionist movement—Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Harriet Tubman and Harriet Jacobs—revealing how these highly visible proponents of the antislavery cause were able to creatively engage and at times overcome the cultural biases of their listening and reading audiences. When engaged in public sphere discourses, these individuals were not, as some scholars have suggested, inclined to accept unconditionally stereotypical constructions of their own identities. Rather they were quite skillful in negotiating between their affinity with antislavery Christianity and their own intimate involvement with slave circle dance and improvisational song, burial rites, conjuration, divination, folk medicinal practices, African dialects and African inspired festivals. The authors emerge as more complex figures than scholars have imagined. Their political views, though sometimes moderate, often reflected a strong desire to strike a fierce blow at the core of the slavocracy.

Author : Mary Prince
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486146935

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The History of Mary Prince by Mary Prince Pdf

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.