Title African voices of the Atlantic slave trade : beyond the silence and the shame / Anne C. Bailey

Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, map Series Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition History Reference Center Book Collection Nonfiction: High School Edition 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 Anlo Ewe religious organizations -- Reparations as rememory and redress Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History Slave trade -- America -- History Slave trade -- Ghana -- History Anlo (African people) -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Slave trade. Sklavenhandel Slavenhandel. West Africa. America. Ghana. Ghana Afrika Amerika Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807055199 0807055190 9780807055120 129956285X 0807055123 9781299562851

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