Description
Book SynopsisTestimonies of slavery and the slave trade
Trade ReviewIt is an important contribution to the expanding literature on African enslavement during the decline of trans-Atlantic transportation and its displacement by 'legitimate' commerce, and essential reading for those seeking to understand the lived experience of African slaves.
* Biography *
The book not only sheds light on a little understood but pervasive aspect of Ghanaian history and culture, it also invites and makes possible the comparative study of North American slave narratives with those that represent the experience of slavery for Africans who remained in Africa.
* African Studies Review *
What makes this book tremendously valuable, particularly for undergraduates, is how Greene examines the historical, literary, and cultural contexts in which each narrative was produced. ... A must have for academic libraries supporting an undergraduate curriculum in Africana studies. ...Essential.October 2011
* Choice *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Translations
A Note on Ewe Orthography
Introduction
Part 1. Aaron Kuku: The Life History of a Former Slave
1. Enslavement Remembered
2. The Life History of Aaron Kuku
Part 2. The Biographies of Lydia Yawo and Yosef Famfantor: Life in Slavery/Life after Abolition
3. To Stay or Go: Exploring the Decisions of the Formerly Enslaved
4. Come Over and Help Us! The Life Journey of Lydia Yawo, a Freed Slave
5. Yosef Famfantor
Part 3. Paul Sands's Diary: Living with the Past/Constructing the Present and the Future
6. Open Secrets and Sequestered Stories: A Diary about Family, Slavery, and Self in Southeastern Ghana
7. The Diary of Paul Sands: Excerpts
Part 4. A Kidnapping at Atorkor: The Making of a Community Memory
8. Our Citizens, Our Kin Enslaved
9. Oral Traditions about Individuals Enslaved
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
