TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bellagamba,Alice
AU  - Greene,Sandra E.
AU  - Klein,Martin A.
TI  - African voices on slavery and the slave trade /edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein with the assistance of Carolyn Brown
SN  - 9781107336186
AV  - HT1321 .A375 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Oral history
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - This book uses primary sources to capture the ways Africans experienced and were influenced by the slave trade
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