The bitter legacy
Subtitle: African slavery past and present
By: Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, and Martin Klein, editors ; with the collaboration of Carolyn Brown
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781558765498; 9781558765504
Subjects: Slavery; History; Slaves; Social conditions; Freedmen; Collective memory; Social classes; Discrimination; Stigma (Social psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. When the past shadows the present: the legacy in Africa of slavery and the slave trade / Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, and Martin Klein; title: The struggle for political emancipation of slave descendants in contemporary Borgu, northern Benin / Eric Komlavi Hahonou; title: On remembering slavery in northern Igbo proverbial discourse / Damian U. Opata; title: To cut the rope from one's neck? manumission documents of slave descendants from central Malian Fulbe society / Lotte Pelckmans; title: Memories of slavery in a former slave-trading community: the Aro of the Bight of Biafra / G. Ugo Nwokeji; title: Tabula and Pa Jacob, two twentieth-century slave narratives from Cameroon / Zacharie Saha; title: Songs of sorrow, songs of triumph: memories of the slave trade among the Bulsa of Ghana / Emmanuel Saboro; title: Evoking the past through material culture: the Mami Tchamba shrine / Alessandra Brivio; title: Slave ancestry and religious discrimination in The Gambia / Alice Bellagamba and Martin Klein; title: Memories of slavery and the slave trade from Futa Toro, northern Senegal / Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré.