It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now?--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called "the Old Slave Coast"-share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories that were handed down through generations, Bailey finds that, although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating consequences on their history and identity. In this unprecedented and revelatory book, Bailey explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory. From the Trade Paperback edition.
This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade.
Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa.
This book focuses on retelling many of the important episodes in the global past (c.1500–present) from African points of view.
This volume catalogs nearly 500 discrete accounts and more than 2,500 printings of them over four centuries in numerous Atlantic languages.
This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade.
We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas.
This book is a perfect supplement for world history and African history instructors seeking to relate a compelling narrative of major world events.
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This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.
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