| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 563 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Foreword: Beyond the Printed Word; Introduction Finding the African Voice; Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade; 1 Introduction: Oral Traditions, Historical Tales, and Interviews; Oral Traditions; Historical Tales; Interviews; 2 Oral Traditions about Individuals Enslaved in Asante; Gyamana Nana of Takyiman; Kramo Tia of Gonja; Questions to Consider; On the traditions about Gyamana Nana and Kramo Tia; On the traditions about Gyamana Nana; On the traditions about Kramo Tia. |
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Terminology; Suggested Additional Readings; On Slavery in Asante; 3 "The Little Things that Would Please Your Heart ... "; Some Biographical Information; Where is the Slaves' Voice?; Questions to Consider; Suggested Additional Readings; On Jali as Oral Historians and Musicians; On Oral Sources and the Memory of Slavery; 4 Tales of Cowries, Money, and Slaves; Questions to Consider; Suggested Additional Readings; 5 Oral Accounts of Slave-master Relations from Cameroon Noncentralized and Centralized Polities (1750-1950); The Account of Ashunken and His Slaves; Questions to Consider. |
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The Oral Account Proper; The Story of the Slave Who Was Buried Alive in a Boundary Peace Pact; Questions to Consider; Teihbezanchong's Version of the Story of Mbonghagesoh; Suggested Additional Readings; 6 "He Who Is Without Family Will Be the Subject of Many Exactions"; Questions to Consider; Suggested Additional Readings; 7 Common Themes, Individual Voices; Slavery and Abolition in Mingoyo and Lindi; The Interviews: Discursive Stratagems, Recording and Editing; Questions to Consider; Suggested Additional Readings; 8 Slavery in Kano Emirate of Sokoto Caliphate as Recounted. |
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Questions to Consider; Suggested Additional Readings; Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects; 9 Introduction: Songs, Prayers, Proverbs, and Material Culture; Songs and Prayers; Proverbs; Material Culture; 10 Singing Songs and Performing Dances with Embedded Historical Meanings in Somalia; Questions to Consider; Massewè and the Yao Chief Machinga; The Mseve and the Flight from Slavery of the Zigula; Conclusion; Suggested Additional Readings; 11 Song Lyrics as Pathways to Historical Interpretation in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire; Background; Questions to Consider. |
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Suggested Additional Readings; History of Northwestern Ivory Coast; 12 Slave Voices from the Cameroon Grassfields; Prayers and Songs of Enslaved Yamba People; Questions to Consider; Dirges and Nuptial Recitations; Questions to Consider; The Voice of Nkeng Tanya; Questions to Consider; Nkeng Tanya's Nuptial Chant; Questions on the Chant to Consider; Suggested Additional Readings; 13 Silent Testimonies, Public Memory; The Yoruba People; Slave Proverbs as Oral History; The Collection Process; Slavery in Yoruba History; Questions to Consider; Conclusion; Suggested Additional Readings; 14 In Remembrance of Slavery. |
| Summary |
This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Africa -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Africa. |
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History. |
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Slave trade -- Africa -- History.
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Slave trade. |
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Oral history -- Africa.
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Oral history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Bellagamba, Alice, editor.
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Greene, Sandra E., 1952- editor.
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Klein, Martin A., editor.
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| Note |
Available from some providers with title: African voices on slavery and the slave trade. Volume 1, The sources |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bellagamba, Alice. African voices on slavery and the slave trade 9780521194709 (DLC) 2012034316 (OCoLC)809250567 |
| ISBN |
9781107336186 (electronic book) |
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110733618X (electronic book) |
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1139022555 |
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9781139022552 |
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9781107334526 |
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1107334527 |
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9780521194709 (Hardback) |
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0521194709 (Hardback) |
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9780521145268 (paperback) |
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0521145260 (paperback) |
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