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Title African voices on slavery and the slave trade / edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein with the assistance of Carolyn Brown
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 563 pages) : illustrations, maps
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
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
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
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Slavery -- Africa -- History
Slave trade -- Africa -- History
Oral history -- Africa
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Oral history
Slave trade
Slavery
Sklavenhandel
Sklaverei
Sklave
Oral history
Africa
Afrika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bellagamba, Alice, editor.
Greene, Sandra E., 1952- editor.
Klein, Martin A., editor.
ISBN 9781107336186
110733618X
1139022555
9781139022552
9781107334526
1107334527
9781107332867
1107332869
9781107335356
1107335353
Other Titles Available from some providers with title: African voices on slavery and the slave trade. Volume 1, The sources