[PDF] African Voices Of The Atlantic Slave Trade eBook

Author : Anne Caroline Bailey
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Anlo (African people)
ISBN : 9780807055120

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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
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 110732808X

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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 the slave trade.

Author : Alice Bellagamba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521194709

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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 : 12,81 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429982135

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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
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1316538788

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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 : James Walvin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1780232047

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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 : Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781606189269

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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 : Alice Bellagamba
Publisher :
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Oral history
ISBN : 9781107334526

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

Author : Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107176263

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