ISBN:
9781316541364
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 206 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version African voices on slavery and the slave trade. Volume 2, Essays on sources and methods
DDC:
306.3/62/096
Keywords:
Oral history Research
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Methodology
;
Oral history Sources
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Slave trade Research
;
Methodology
;
Slavery Research
;
Methodology
;
Slave trade History
;
Sources
;
Slavery History
;
Sources
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Slavery ; Africa ; History
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Slave trade ; Africa ; History
;
Oral history ; Africa
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Electronic books
Abstract:
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, possession rituals, Arabic language sources, European missionary, administrative and court records and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. Also discussed are the methodologies that can be used to uncover the often hidden experiences of Africans embedded in these sources. This book will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction Sources and methods: Writing about African slavery and the slave trade -- 1 Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa -- 2 Christian missionaries on record: Documenting slavery and the slave trade from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth century -- 3 Early modern European-language sources on African slavery: The historian at work -- 4 African intellectual ideas in the age of legal slavery and the slave trade
Abstract:
5 Looking for slavery in colonial archives: French West Africa -- 6 Slave voices in African colonial courts: Sources and methods -- 7 Understanding slavery in possession rituals -- 8 Yesterday and today: Studying African slavery, the slave trade and their legacies through oral sources -- Index
Note:
"[T]he second of a two-volume series that has emerged from two conferences. The first "Finding the African Voice: Narratives of Slavery and Enslavement," was held in Bellagio, Italy, in September 2007. The second, "Tales of Slavery: Narratives of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Enslavement in Africa," was held in Toronto in May 2009"--Page ix
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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