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Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic (Hardcover)
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Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic (Hardcover)
Series: Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
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From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of
Madagascar’s people were brought to American ports as slaves. In
Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic, Wendy
Wilson-Fall shows that the descendants of these Malagasy slaves in
the United States maintained an ethnic identity in ways that those
from the areas more commonly feeding the Atlantic slave trade did
not. Generations later, hundreds, if not thousands, of African
Americans maintain strong identities as Malagasy descendants, yet
the histories of Malagasy slaves, sailors, and their descendants
have been little explored. Wilson-Fall examines how and why the
stories that underlie this identity have been handed down through
families—and what this says about broader issues of ethnicity and
meaning-making for those whose family origins, if documented at
all, have been willfully obscured by history. By analyzing
contemporary oral histories as well as historical records and
examining the conflicts between the two, Wilson-Fall carefully
probes the tensions between the official and the personal, the
written and the lived. She suggests that historically, the black
community has been a melting pot to which generations of
immigrants—enslaved and free—have been socially assigned, often
in spite of their wish to retain far more complex identities.
Innovative in its methodology and poetic in its articulation, this
book bridges history and ethnography to take studies of diaspora,
ethnicity, and identity into new territory.
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