African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade

Herausgeber: Bellagamba, Alice; Klein, Martin A.; Greene, Sandra E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. It will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780521145299
• ISBN-10: 0521145295
• Artikelnr.: 59583516

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: sources and methods - writing about African slavery and the
slave trade Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene and Martin A. Klein; 1.
Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery and slave trade in
Western Africa Ghislaine Lydon and Bruce Hall; 2. Christian missionaries on
record: documenting slavery and the slave trade from the late fifteenth to
the early twentieth century Sandra E. Greene; 3. Early-modern
European-language sources on African slavery: the historian at work
Pierluigi Valsecchi; 4. African intellectual ideas in the age of legal
slavery and the slave trade Sandra E. Greene and Oluwatoyin Oduntan; 5.
Looking for slavery in colonial archives: French West Africa Martin A.
Klein; 6. Slave voices in African colonial courts: sources and methods
Kristin Mann and Richard Roberts; 7. Understanding African slavery past
through spirit possession Alessandra Brivio; 8. Yesterday and today: oral
representations of the past and the legacy of African slavery Alice
Bellagamba.