African voices on slavery and the slave trade /edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein with the assistance of Carolyn Brown.
Available from some providers with title: African voices on slavery and the slave trade Volume 1, The sources
- New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xxi, 563 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
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. TerminologySuggested 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. The Oral Account ProperThe 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. Questions to ConsiderSuggested 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. Suggested Additional ReadingsHistory 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.
This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade.