Richard Anderson

African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition (eBook, PDF)

Testimonies from the 19th-century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This unique and rich collection of narratives, written or dictated by formerly enslaved Africans between 1820 and 1876, offers a rare snapshot of African voices in the history of slavery. Including narratives from the Atlantic and Indian Ocean trades, as well as testimonies from enslaved people who never left the African continent, it expands the chronological and geographical scope of known accounts of enslavement, highlights the few but important women's narratives and provides thoughtful analysis and context about internal enslavement, the slave trade and the process of liberation.

Made up of 32 narratives, each carefully contextualised and introduced, this volume comprises some of the most substantial and previously unpublished accounts of the slave trade in the archives of the Church Missionary and Methodist Missionary Societies. Bringing new testimonies to light and enriching our understanding of enslaved voices, African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition is an important and much-needed contribution to the 'biographical turn' and study of the slave trade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350459670
• Artikelnr.: 72247535

Autorenporträt

Richard Anderson is Lecturer in the History of Slavery at the University of Aberdeen, UK. His teaching and research encompasses African, Atlantic and Indian Ocean histories of enslaved and free Africans, the history of the slave trade and its abolition, and the history of bonded and unfree labour in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary Introduction: African voices in missionary archives Part I: West
Africa and the Atlantic Trade Josiah Yamsey David Noah Matthew Thomas
Harding John Attarra Joseph Boston May Charles Harding George Thompson
James Will John Campbell Joseph Wright Joseph Right James Gerber Thomas
King James Barber Peter Wilson Susannah Bola William Doherty Part II:
Enslavement in Africa Awa Daniel Dopemu Jack Macumba John Cupidon Mary Ann
Gay John Gum Part III: East Africa and the Indian Ocean Trade George David
William Henry Jones Ishmael Semler James Deimler Paul Deimler Lewis Brenn
David Rebmann Cecil Mabruki Duiah William Further reading Appendix 1: Maps
Appendix 2: Images