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In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of
three prominent West African slave owners during the age of
abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and
political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests,
religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to
understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as
they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by
these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities,
desires to protect their economic and social status, and their
insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other
associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in
West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is
critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous
slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to
this day.
In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of
three prominent West African slave owners during the age of
abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and
political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests,
religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to
understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as
they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by
these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities,
desires to protect their economic and social status, and their
insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other
associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in
West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is
critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous
slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to
this day.
This collection of essays explores the ways that memories of
African slavery and the slave trade persist into the present, as
well as the effect those memories have in shaping political,
social, economic, and religious behaviour today. The articles take
a range of approaches: several examine the stigma that slave
origins engender; one pairs lamentations about slave raiders with
songs that celebrate a community's victory over a major predator;
another looks at the impact of slavery through the lens of tales
told by children. One author examines the techniques used by
descendants of slave traders and slave owners to overcome their
guilt, such as worshiping the spirits of those enslaved by their
ancestors, while another shows how democratic politics has made it
possible for descendants of slaves to liberate themselves from
their inferior social status. The authors use a variety of
sources-interviews, proverbs, songs, religious art, newspaper
articles, and children's stories-to illuminate not only how people
remember the past but also how they struggle to liberate themselves
from it.
Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African,
Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting
research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on
African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and
women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both
conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts,
colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and
less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral
traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by
missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and
consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source
has a short introduction highlighting its significance and
orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students
and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African
slavery and the slave trade.
Slavery in Africa existed for hundreds of years before it was
abolished in the late 19th century. Yet, we know little about how
enslaved individuals, especially those who never left Africa,
talked about their experiences. Collecting never before published
or translated narratives of Africans from southeastern Ghana,
Sandra E. Greene explores how these writings reveal the thoughts,
emotions, and memories of those who experienced slavery and the
slave trade. Greene considers how local norms and the circumstances
behind the recording of the narratives influenced their content and
impact. This unprecedented study affords unique insights into how
ordinary West Africans understood and talked about their lives
during a time of change and upheaval.
To what extent did colonialism affect the terms by which the
colonised understood the material and spiritual landscapes in which
they lived? What history, memories, and meanings survive from the
colonial encounter and before? In this text, Sandra E. Greene
explores the material and spiritual meanings that the Anlo-Ewe
people of Ghana once associated with particular bodies of water,
burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body itself and brings
these meanings and memories into contemporary context for the Anlo.
As a key to understanding the Anlo world view, Greene reconstructs
a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical
environment of 19th century Anlo. Drawing on her extensive
fieldwork, early European accounts, and the archives and
publications of the Bremen Missionary Society, Greene charts how
these ideas changed following contact with British colonisers and
German Pietist missionaries who discouraged spiritual
interpretation of these sites in favour of more scientific and
regulatory views.; Anlo responses to these colonialist challenges
to their ways of organising physical space involved considerable
resistance and, over time, selective acceptance of aspects of n
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the
practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold
from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were
forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited
from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How
do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume
explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, possession
rituals, Arabic language sources, European missionary,
administrative and court records and African intellectual writings
to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade
in Africa. Also discussed are the methodologies that can be used to
uncover the often hidden experiences of Africans embedded in these
sources. This book will be invaluable for students and researchers
interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and
post-slavery in Africa.
Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African,
Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting
research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on
African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and
women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both
conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts,
colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and
less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral
traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by
missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and
consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source
has a short introduction highlighting its significance and
orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students
and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African
slavery and the slave trade.
What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the
practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold
from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were
forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited
from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How
do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume
explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, possession
rituals, Arabic language sources, European missionary,
administrative and court records and African intellectual writings
to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade
in Africa. Also discussed are the methodologies that can be used to
uncover the often hidden experiences of Africans embedded in these
sources. This book will be invaluable for students and researchers
interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and
post-slavery in Africa.
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