Gender Ethnicity And Social Change On The Upper Slave Coast
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Gender Ethnicity And Social Change On The Upper Slave Coast
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Author : Sandra E. Greene
language : en
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
Release Date : 1996
Gender Ethnicity And Social Change On The Upper Slave Coast written by Sandra E. Greene and has been published by James Currey Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Education categories.
Paper Edition. This book focuses on the history of the Anlo-Eve of southeastern Ghana over three centuries.
Slave Owners Of West Africa
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Author : Sandra E. Greene
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-22
Slave Owners Of West Africa written by Sandra E. Greene and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-22 with History categories.
In this groundbreaking book, Sandra E. Greene explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition. These first-published biographies reveal personal and political accomplishments and concerns, economic interests, religious beliefs, and responses to colonial rule in an attempt to understand why the subjects reacted to the demise of slavery as they did. Greene emphasizes the notion that the decisions made by these individuals were deeply influenced by their personalities, desires to protect their economic and social status, and their insecurities and sympathies for wives, friends, and other associates. Knowing why these individuals and so many others in West Africa made the decisions they did, Greene contends, is critical to understanding how and why the institution of indigenous slavery continues to influence social relations in West Africa to this day.
African Voices On Slavery And The Slave Trade Volume 1 The Sources
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Author : Alice Bellagamba
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-21
African Voices On Slavery And The Slave Trade Volume 1 The Sources written by Alice Bellagamba and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-21 with History categories.
Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world, and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (e.g., European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (e.g., folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and slave trade.
African Voices Of The Atlantic Slave Trade
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Author : Anne Caroline Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2005
African Voices Of The Atlantic Slave Trade written by Anne Caroline Bailey and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Anlo (African people) categories.
It's an awful story. It's an awful story. Why do you want to bring this up now'--Chief Awusa of Atorkor For centuries, the story of the Atlantic slave trade has been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans. In this watershed book, historian Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana-once famously called "the Old Slave Coast"--Share stories that reveal that Africans were traders as well as victims of the trade. Bailey argues that, like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing scores of oral histories that were handed down through generations, Bailey finds that, although Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, even their partial involvement in the slave trade had devastating consequences on their history and identity. In this unprecedented and revelatory book, Bailey explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory. From the Trade Paperback edition
Sacred Sites And The Colonial Encounter
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Author : Sandra E. Greene
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-14
Sacred Sites And The Colonial Encounter written by Sandra E. Greene and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-14 with History categories.
"Greene gives the reader a vivid sense of the Anlo encounter with western thought and Christian beliefs . . . and the resulting erasures, transferences, adaptations, and alterations in their perceptions of place, space, and the body." —Emmanuel Akyeampong Sandra E. Greene reconstructs a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical environment of the 19th-century Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana and brings history and memory into contemporary context. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, early European accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual meanings associated with particular bodies of water, burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body itself to change in favor of more scientific and regulatory views. Anlo responses to these colonial ideas involved considerable resistance, and, over time, the Anlo began to attribute selective, varied, and often contradictory meanings to the body and the spaces they inhabited. Despite these multiple meanings, Greene shows that the Anlo were successful in forging a consensus on how to manage their identity, environment, and community.
Politics Of Social Change In Ghana
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Author : B. Talton
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-01-04
Politics Of Social Change In Ghana written by B. Talton and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-04 with History categories.
With Ghana's colonial and postcolonial politics as a backdrop, this book explores the ways in which historically marginalized communities have defined and redefined themselves to protect their interests and compete politically and economically with neighbouring ethnic groups.
The Political Economy Of The Interior Gold Coast
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Author : Jarvis L. Hargrove
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2015-12-09
The Political Economy Of The Interior Gold Coast written by Jarvis L. Hargrove and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-09 with History categories.
This book analyzes the Gold Coast and the Asante kingdom in the years following the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and prior to the start of colonial rule. The Asante state, one of the largest in the Gold Coast and West Africa after the eighteenth century is the central focus of this work. Studying their transition from a large scale supplier of captives to the transatlantic slave trade to traders in legitimate goods is a critical component that should be analyzed across West Africa. This work highlights the political and economic relationships between the interior Asante state with surrounding African groups and Europeans, chiefly British traders who entered the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Masquerading Politics
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Author : John Thabiti Willis
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-15
Masquerading Politics written by John Thabiti Willis and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-15 with Social Science categories.
“Willis should be commended for penetrating a complex and socially guarded ritual resource to glean the hidden histories manifested therein.” —African Studies Review In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional structures in which masquerade was used to reveal ongoing changes in notions of gender, kinship, and ethnic identity. As Willis focuses on performers and spectators, he reveals a history of masquerade that is rich and complex. His research offers a more nuanced understanding of performance practices in Africa and their role in forging alliances, consolidating state power, incorporating immigrants, executing criminals, and projecting individual and group power on both sides of the Afro-Atlantic world. “Willis cites oral traditions, archival sources, and publications to draw attention to the link between economic development and spectacular and historically influential masquerade performances.” —Babatunde Lawal, author of The Gelede Spectacle “Important in its emphasis on the history of an art form and its specific cultural context; of interest to academic audiences as well as general readers.” —Henry Drewal, editor of Sacred Waters “Willis’s work should be a must-read for students and established scholars alike.” —Africa
Critical Perspectives In Politics And Socio Economic Development In Ghana
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Author : Wisdom J. Tettey
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Critical Perspectives In Politics And Socio Economic Development In Ghana written by Wisdom J. Tettey and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Social Science categories.
This volume provides a comprehensive and integrated analysis of contemporary Ghanaian politics and economy and their relationship to culture. It combines rich, recent, empirical material with sophisticated theoretical analyses, bringing fresh and unique interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on the issues examined.
Emergent Masculinities
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Author : Ndubueze L. Mbah
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-29
Emergent Masculinities written by Ndubueze L. Mbah and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with History categories.
In Emergent Masculinities, Ndubueze L. Mbah argues that the Bight of Biafra region’s Atlanticization—or the interaction between regional processes and Atlantic forces such as the slave trade, colonialism, and Christianization—between 1750 and 1920 transformed gender into the primary mode of social differentiation in the region. He incorporates over 250 oral narratives of men and women across a range of social roles and professions with material culture practices, performance traditions, slave ship data, colonial records, and more to reveal how Africans channeled the socioeconomic forces of the Atlantic world through their local ideologies and practices. The gendered struggles over the means of social reproduction conditioned the Bight of Biafra region’s participation in Atlantic systems of production and exchange, and defined the demography of the region’s forced diaspora. By looking at male and female constructions of masculinity and sexuality as major indexes of social change, Emergent Masculinities transforms our understanding of the role of gender in precolonial Africa and fills a major gap in our knowledge of a broader set of theoretical and comparative issues linked to the slave trade and the African diaspora.