| Description |
289 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: from the Middle Passage to middle quarters, Jamaica: the transformation of a personal journey -- The incident at Atorkor: a break with the past -- African agency in the Atlantic slave trade -- African resistance: the slave who whipt her mistress and ganed her fredom and other oral and written tales -- European and American agency in the Atlantic slave trade -- The social and political impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the old Slave Coast -- Subversion of the sacred: the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on Slave Coast -- Reparations as rememory and redress. |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History.
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Slave trade. |
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West Africa. |
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History. |
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Slave trade -- America -- History.
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America. |
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Slave trade -- Ghana -- History.
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Ghana. |
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Anlo (African people) -- Social conditions.
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Anlo (African people) |
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Social conditions. |
| ISBN |
0807055123 cloth alkaline paper |
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