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This collection explores the effects of memories of African slavery on political, social, economic, and religious behavior today. The articles take a range of approaches: tackling the stigma of slave origins; investigating religious communion with slave ancestors; mining songs and children’s stories for insights into the persistent memory of the continent’s slave past; and examining the techniques used by descendants of slave traders and slaveowners to overcome their guilt, such as worshiping the spirits of those enslaved by their ancestors

BELLAGAMBA, A., Greene, S., Klein, M. (a cura di). (2013). The Bitter Legacy. African Slavery Past and Present. Princeton : Markus Weiner.

The Bitter Legacy. African Slavery Past and Present

BELLAGAMBA, ALICE;
2013

Abstract

This collection explores the effects of memories of African slavery on political, social, economic, and religious behavior today. The articles take a range of approaches: tackling the stigma of slave origins; investigating religious communion with slave ancestors; mining songs and children’s stories for insights into the persistent memory of the continent’s slave past; and examining the techniques used by descendants of slave traders and slaveowners to overcome their guilt, such as worshiping the spirits of those enslaved by their ancestors
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 -- The struggle for political emancipation of slave descendants in contemporary Borgu, northern Benin / Eric Komlavi Hahonou -- On remembering slavery in northern Igbo proverbial discourse / Damian U. Opata -- To cut the rope from one's neck? manumission documents of slave descendants from central Malian Fulbe society / Lotte Pelckmans -- Memories of slavery in a former slave-trading community: the Aro of the Bight of Biafra / G. Ugo Nwokeji -- Tabula and Pa Jacob, two twentieth-century slave narratives from Cameroon / Zacharie Saha -- Songs of sorrow, songs of triumph: memories of the slave trade among the Bulsa of Ghana / Emmanuel Saboro -- Evoking the past through material culture: the Mami Tchamba shrine / Alessandra Brivio -- Slave ancestry and religious discrimination in The Gambia / Alice Bellagamba and Martin Klein -- Memories of slavery and the slave trade from Futa Toro, northern Senegal / Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré.
Africa, Memories of Slavery, Slave Trade, Abolition, Freemen
English
2013
9781558765504
222
Markus Weiner
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BELLAGAMBA, A., Greene, S., Klein, M. (a cura di). (2013). The Bitter Legacy. African Slavery Past and Present. Princeton : Markus Weiner.
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