ISBN:
110733618X
,
9781107336186
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 563 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bellagamba, Alice African voices on slavery and the slave trade
DDC:
306.362096
Keywords:
Slavery History
;
Slave trade History
;
Oral history
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Oral history
;
Slave trade
;
Slavery
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Sklaverei
;
Sklave
;
Oral history
;
History
;
Africa
;
Afrika
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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