Crossing memories
Subtitle: slavery and African diaspora
By: edited by Ana Lucia Araujo, Mariana P. Candido, Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781592218196; 9781592218202
Subjects: African diaspora; Slave trade; Memory; Congresses; Slavery; History
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held in Quebec City in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In the empire of forgetting : collective memory of the slave trade and slavery / Bogumil Jewsiewicki; title: Personal memory and the collective experience of the slave trade in the autobiography of Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano / Paul E. Lovejoy; title: "The 'Brazilians' are us" : identity and gender in the memory of the Atlantic slave trade in Ketu, Benin / Lorelle Semley; title: Competition over "sites of memory" : Le Morne Brabant and Creole identity in Mauritius / Sandra Carmignani; title: Forgetting and remembering the Atlantic slave trade : the legacy of Brazilian slave merchant Francisco Felix de Souza / Ana Lucia Araujo; title: Scattered memories : the intra-Caribbean slave trade to colonial Spanish America, 1700-1750 / Nadine Hunt; title: Voices of those who testified on slavery in Kano Emirate / Mohammed Bashir Salau; title: Life stories and ancestor debts : "Creole Malagasy" in eighteenth-century Virginia / Wendy Wilson-Fall; title: Tracing Benguela identity to the homeland / Mariana P. Candido; title: Art and the history of African slave folias in Brazil / Mariza de Carvalho Soares; title: "So that God forgives the former masters" : salvation through manumission in Ottoman Algeria / Yacine Daddi Addoun.