African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade

Volume 1, the Sources

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19907565
AutoresBenjamin Acloque, Kofi Anyidoho, Alessandra Brivio, E S D Fomin, F Becker (0000-0002-8210-7252), Mohammed Bashir Salau (0009-0004-8930-5050), F Declich (0000-0001-7895-9228), Jeanne Maddox Toungara, Olatunji Ojo, Dana Rush, Ahmadou Sehou, Ute Röschenthaler (0000-0002-5005-2293), Bayo Holsey
EditoresAlice Bellagamba, Sandra E Greene, Martin A Klein
Ano2012
Data de publicação2012-12-11
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoAfrican Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139022552
OpenAlexW623405050
Open LibraryOL34557213M
ISBN9781139022552
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas23

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 slave trade

Ancient history · Arabic · Archaeology · Atlantic slave trade · Colonialism · Ethnology · Folklore · Genealogy · History of Africa · Middle Passage · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Africa · Methodology · Oral history · Research · Slave trade · Slavery · Slaves · Slaves' writings, African · Society · Sources