Crossing memories : slavery and African diaspora / edited by Ana Lucia Araujo, Mariana P. Candido, Paul E. Lovejoy.

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Other Authors: Araujo, Ana Lucia, Candido, Mariana P. (Mariana Pinho), 1975-, Lovejoy, Paul E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2011.
Series:Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora.
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Table of Contents:
  • In the empire of forgetting : collective memory of the slave trade and slavery / Bogumil Jewsiewicki
  • Personal memory and the collective experience of the slave trade in the autobiography of Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano / Paul E. Lovejoy
  • "The 'Brazilians' are us" : identity and gender in the memory of the Atlantic slave trade in Ketu, Benin / Lorelle Semley
  • Competition over "sites of memory" : Le Morne Brabant and Creole identity in Mauritius / Sandra Carmignani
  • Forgetting and remembering the Atlantic slave trade : the legacy of Brazilian slave merchant Francisco Felix de Souza / Ana Lucia Araujo
  • Scattered memories : the intra-Caribbean slave trade to colonial Spanish America, 1700-1750 / Nadine Hunt
  • Voices of those who testified on slavery in Kano Emirate / Mohammed Bashir Salau
  • Life stories and ancestor debts : "Creole Malagasy" in eighteenth-century Virginia / Wendy Wilson-Fall
  • Tracing Benguela identity to the homeland / Mariana P. Candido
  • Art and the history of African slave folias in Brazil / Mariza de Carvalho Soares
  • "So that God forgives the former masters" : salvation through manumission in Ottoman Algeria / Yacine Daddi Addoun.