Ama A Story Of The Atlantic Slave Trade
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Ama A Story Of The Atlantic Slave Trade
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Author : Manu Herbstein
language : en
Publisher: Moritz HERBSTEIN
Release Date : 2018-01-05
Ama A Story Of The Atlantic Slave Trade written by Manu Herbstein and has been published by Moritz HERBSTEIN this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-05 with Fiction categories.
"I am a human being; I am a woman; I am a black woman; I am an African. Once I was free; then I was captured and became a slave; but inside me, here and here, I am still a free woman." During a period of four hundred years, European slave traders ferried some 12 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic. In the Americas, teaching a slave to read and write was a criminal offense. When the last slaves gained their freedom in Brazil, barely a thousand of them were literate. Hardly any stories of the enslaved and transported Africans have survived. This novel is an attempt to recreate just one of those stories, one story of a possible 12 million or more.Lawrence Hill created another in The Book of Negroes (Someone Knows my Name in the U.S.) and, more recently, Yaa Gyasi has done the same in Homegoing. Ama occupies center stage throughout this novel. As the story opens, she is sixteen. Distant drums announce the death of her grandfather. Her family departs to attend the funeral, leaving her alone to tend her ailing baby brother. It is 1775. Asante has conquered its northern neighbor and exacted an annual tribute of 500 slaves. The ruler of Dagbon dispatches a raiding party into the lands of the neighboring Bekpokpam. They capture Ama. That night, her lover, Itsho, leads an attack on the raiders’ camp. The rescue bid fails. Sent to collect water from a stream, Ama comes across Itsho’s mangled corpse. For the rest of her life she will call upon his spirit in time of need. In Kumase, the Asante capital, Ama is given as a gift to the Queen-mother. When the adolescent monarch, Osei Kwame, conceives a passion for her, the regents dispatch her to the coast for sale to the Dutch at Elmina Castle. There the governor, Pieter de Bruyn, selects her as his concubine, dressing her in the elegant clothes of his late Dutch wife and instructing the obese chaplain to teach her to read and write English. De Bruyn plans to marry Ama and take her with him to Europe. He makes a last trip to the Dutch coastal outstations and returns infected with yellow fever. On his death, his successor rapes Ama and sends her back to the female dungeon. Traumatized, her mind goes blank. She comes to her senses in the canoe which takes her and other women out to the slave ship, The Love of Liberty. Before the ship leaves the coast of Africa, Ama instigates a slave rebellion. It fails and a brutal whipping leaves her blind in one eye. The ship is becalmed in mid-Atlantic. Then a fierce storm cripples it and drives it into the port of Salvador, capital of Brazil. Ama finds herself working in the fields and the mill on a sugar estate. She is absorbed into slave society and begins to adapt, learning Portuguese. Years pass. Ama is now totally blind. Clutching the cloth which is her only material link with Africa, she reminisces, dozes, falls asleep. A short epilogue brings the story up to date. The consequences of the slave trade and slavery are still with us. Brazilians of African descent remain entrenched in the lower reaches of society, enmeshed in poverty. “This is story telling on a grand scale,” writes Tony Simões da Silva. “In Ama, Herbstein creates a work of literature that celebrates the resilience of human beings while denouncing the inscrutable nature of their cruelty. By focusing on the brutalization of Ama's body, and on the psychological scars of her experiences, Herbstein dramatizes the collective trauma of slavery through the story of a single African woman. Ama echoes the views of writers, historians and philosophers of the African diaspora who have argued that the phenomenon of slavery is inextricable from the deepest foundations of contemporary western civilization.” Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Best First Book.
Ama
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Author : Manu Herbstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-09-01
Ama written by Manu Herbstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with Dagbani (African people) categories.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Author : Captivating History
language : en
Publisher: Captivating History
Release Date : 2021-02-06
The Transatlantic Slave Trade written by Captivating History and has been published by Captivating History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-06 with categories.
This book will tell you the story of human greed and heartlessness toward fellow human beings, and it will lead you through the painful and often macabre voyage of the transatlantic slave trade.
The Slave Trade
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Author : Hugh Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Slave Trade written by Hugh Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Slave trade categories.
The Atlantic Slave Trade
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Author : J. E. Inikori
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1992-04-30
The Atlantic Slave Trade written by J. E. Inikori and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-30 with History categories.
For review see: J.R. McNeill, in HAHR, 74, 1 (February 1994); p. 136-137.
Black Cargoes
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Author : Daniel P. Mannix
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Black Cargoes written by Daniel P. Mannix and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Slave trade categories.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-05-20
The Transatlantic Slave Trade written by Charles River Editors and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-20 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the slave trade written by British sailors and former slaves *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination to picture a situation more dreadful or disgusting. Numbers of the slaves having fainted, they were carried upon deck where several of them died and the rest with great difficulty were restored. It had nearly proved fatal to me also." - Dr. Alexander Falconbridge, an 18th century British surgeon It has often been said that the greatest invention of all time was the sail, which facilitated the internationalization of the globe and thus ushered in the modern era. Columbus' contact with the New World, alongside European maritime contact with the Far East, transformed human history, and in particular the history of Africa. It was the sail that linked the continents of Africa and America, and thus it was also the sail that facilitated the greatest involuntary human migration of all time. The African slave trade is a complex and deeply divisive subject that has had a tendency to evolve according the political requirements of any given age, and is often touchable only with the correct distribution of culpability. It has for many years, therefore, been deemed singularly unpalatable to implicate Africans themselves in the perpetration of the institution, and only in recent years has the large-scale African involvement in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Slave Trades come to be an accepted fact. There can, however, be no doubt that even though large numbers of indigenous Africans were liable, it was European ingenuity and greed that fundamentally drove the industrialization of the Transatlantic slave trade in response to massive new market demands created by their equally ruthless exploitation of the Americas. In time, the Atlantic slave trade provided for the labor requirements of the emerging plantation economies of the New World. It was a specific, dedicated and industrial enterprise wherein huge profits were at stake, and a vast and highly organized network of procurement, processing, transport and sale existed to expedite what was in effect a modern commodity market. It existed without sentimentality, without history, and without tradition, and it was only outlawed once the advances of the industrial revolution had created alternative sources of energy for agricultural production. The Transatlantic Slave Trade: The History and Legacy of the System that Brought Slaves to the New World looks at the notorious trade network. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Transatlantic slave trade like never before, in no time at all.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Author : Duchess Harris
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2019-08-01
The Transatlantic Slave Trade written by Duchess Harris and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade looks at the history of the global trade that took millions of Africans captive and shipped them across the Atlantic Ocean to work as slaves, and it explores the impact and legacy of that trade today. Features include a timeline, a glossary, further readings, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Black Cargoes
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Black Cargoes written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.
Before Shackles Chains
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Author : Reuben Laurore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Before Shackles Chains written by Reuben Laurore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with categories.
BEFORE SHACKLES & CHAINS is an eye-opening depiction of the lost history of the descendants of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. It delves into the lost nation's story prior to becoming prisoners of war and having slavery befall them. These people, said to be cursed, have gone through thousands of years of captivity, poverty, and oppression. This book explains why the Trans-Atlantic slaves, who have been slaves to almost all nations of the world throughout history, went through such atrocities and continue to endure tragedy today. The horrific events Black people have always experienced is directly tied to who they are, and the direction that they are headed towards. Their situation is as mysterious as their origin. However, tracing back their bloodline is the key to understanding their past, present, and their inevitable future. It is a remarkable one, understandably hidden by those who sought to gain knowledge, power, wealth, resources, land, and world domination. While the educational systems all around the world mutually remain silent on this matter, they continue to hide and re-write the story of America's captives. This book exposes the lies that have been taught and sheds light on all that has been intentionally hidden. In fear, the elite has buried the biggest kept secret of all time, a secret BEFORE SHACKLES & CHAINS reveals, the true identity of the Black slaves.