African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Beyond the Silence and the Shame
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of AtorkorFor 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 part…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8070-5519-9
- EAN: 9780807055199
- Produktnummer: 15727319
- Verlag: Beacon Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 340 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'722 KB
Über den Autor
Anne C. Bailey is assistant professor of history at Spelman College. Born in Jamaica, she is the author of two historical novels. Bailey has spent time in and among various communities in Ghana, collecting numerous oral histories. She lives with her son, Mickias Joseph, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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