Memories of the Slave Trade
Subtitle: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780226751313
Subjects: Ethnography; Slavery & emancipation; Social Science; Sociology; West Africa; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Sierra Leone; Slave trade; Witchcraft
First sentence: When Edward Ball, the descendant of slave owners in South Carolina, traced the history of the white and African sides of his family, he found that his ancestors had bought some of the human cargo of slave ships from Sierra Leone (1998: 420).