African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Subtitle: Beyond the Silence and the Shame
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: January 2, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780807055120
Subjects: History: World; History; History - General History; Slavery; Slave trade; Africa - West; History / General; America; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; General; Africa, West; Ghana
First sentence: In southern Ghana along the stretch of land off the Atlantic coast formerly known as the old Slave Coast, now known as Eweland, on many a night the striking rhythms of the drums can be heard from many miles away.
Description: Bailey's interest in the oral history of her own Jamaican-born family led her to realize that many of her ancestors were probably slaves, but there was a definite silence and fragmentation when telling their stories. As she researched the perspective of slavery from the view of Africans left behind, she found that African involvement in the Atlantic slave trade as trader and as captive held devastating consequences, which resound in current-day families, organizations, and tribes.