ISBN:
9780226349770
,
0226349772
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 280 p.)
,
ill., map.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Routes of remembrance
DDC:
306.36209667
Keywords:
Slave trade History
;
Ghana
;
Ghana
;
Slave trade History
;
Slave trade History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery
;
Slave trade
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Ghana
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic?. Routes of Remembrance tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade?s absence
Abstract:
Sequestering the slave trade -- Of origins: making family, region, nation -- Conundrums of kinship: sequestering slavery, recalling kin -- Displacing the past: imagined geographies of enslavement -- In place of slavery: fashioning coastal identity -- E-race-ing history: schooling and national identity -- Centering the slave trade -- Slavery and the making of Black Atlantic history -- Navigating new histories.
Description / Table of Contents:
Sequestering the slave tradeOf origins: making family, region, nation -- Conundrums of kinship: sequestering slavery, recalling kin -- Displacing the past: imagined geographies of enslavement -- In place of slavery: fashioning coastal identity -- E-race-ing history: schooling and national identity -- Centering the slave trade -- Slavery and the making of Black Atlantic history -- Navigating new histories.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and index. - Description based on print version record
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