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

Author
Bailey, Anne C. (Anne Caroline)
Published
Boston : Beacon Press, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
289 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm

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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.
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ISBN
0807055123 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.
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