Slavery and its legacy in Ghana and the diaspora /
| Corporate Author: | |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2017.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Figures; Maps; Introduction ; Slavery in Africa ; Ghana and its Diaspora; Slavery and its Legacy; The Book and its Authors; Notes; Part One: The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery before Colonial Rule; Chapter 1: Ghana and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Chronology and Demographics; The Business on the Coast; State Formation; Social and Cultural Effects; End of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Ghana; Notes; Chapter 2: "Tied Up": Slave Relics in Traditional Political Leadership in Burugu, Northern Ghana; Methodology
- Relics: A Brief DiscussionThe Context of Slavery in northern Ghana; In Search of Freedom: Burugu, its Relics, and Traditional Leadership ; Death of Yayaha, Emerging Issues, and the Position of the Bu Naba; Conclusion; Acknowledgment; Notes; Chapter 3: "Earth from a Dead Negro's Grave": Ritual Technologies and Mortuary Realms in the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast Diaspora; Obeah and Coromantee Oaths in the Americas; Coromantee Fortitude, Self-Destruction, and Transmigration; Notes; Chapter 4: Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth Century Fanteland; Atlantic Creoles in the Nineteenth Century
- Beginnings of Anti-Slavery in Southern GhanaAnti-Slavery in the 1830s-1850s: Economic Growth and Transatlantic Connections; Anti-Slavery in the 1860s-1870s: Aggery, Horton, and the Fante Confederacy; Conclusion; Notes; Part Two: Slavery and Abolition Under British Colonial Rule (1874-1957); Chapter 5: The Claims Wives Made: Slavery and Marriage in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast Colony and Protectorate1; "Repugnant to the Laws of England"; Being both Slave and Wife; Claiming "Wife" ; A Woman Who Claimed "Slave"; Conclusions; Notes
- Chapter 6: Signs of an African Emancipation? Slavery and its Resolution in the Reports (1868-1900) of a Ghanaian Pastor-Kofi Theophilus OpokuIntroduction; Pastor Opoku's Distress in Distant Slave Markets, 1877; Slavery and Emancipation in Theophilus Opoku's Annual Reports on His Work as Catechist and Pastor in the Southeastern Interior of the Gold Coast Colony, 1868-1900; Rebalancing Our History of Emancipation in the Gold Coast Colony; Slavery and Associated Relationships as Mirrored in the Basel Mission Archive; An African Emancipation? ; Envoi; Notes
- Chapter 7: An African Abolitionist on the Gold Coast: The Case of Francis P. FearonIntroduction; The Emancipation Question and the Educated Community; The Fearon-MacMunn Affair; The Fearon-MacMunn Affair Reviewed; African Perspectives; Contextualizing Francis P. Fearon; The Aftermath of the Affair-Implications and Interpretations; Conclusion; Notes; Part Three: Memory, Heritage, and the Legacy of Slavery; Chapter 8: Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Shared History or Shared Heritage?; Introduction; History and Heritage: Toward a Definition; Slavery and the Slave Trade as History