Ghosts Of Slavery
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Ghosts Of Slavery
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Author : Jenny Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2003
Ghosts Of Slavery written by Jenny Sharpe and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Enslaved persons' writings categories.
Slave Ghost Stories
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Author : Nancy Rhyne
language : en
Publisher: Sandlapper Publishing
Release Date : 2002
Slave Ghost Stories written by Nancy Rhyne and has been published by Sandlapper Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with African-Americans categories.
A compilation of stories borrowed from former slaves of North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. These tales were gathered by the WPA in the years 1935-1939. The slaves were asked questions about their family history and the widespread belief in spirits of various sorts. According to these stories, the five main creatures that "walked the night" were hags, hants, boo-daddies, plat-eyes and ghosts. All had separate characteristics. Hags disguised themselves as regular people, but a midnight they would shed their skin and torment their enemies, draining them of their energy. Hants lived in trees and would torture their victims day and night. Boo-daddies were reincarnations of witch doctors. Plat-eyes could take the form of an animal, sometimes changing from one animal to another. Ghosts were seen coming out of graveyards at night. This book relates the stories of these spirits based upon eyewitness accounts of former slaves.
Haunted Plantations
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Author : Geordie Buxton
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2007-09-26
Haunted Plantations written by Geordie Buxton and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-26 with History categories.
Chilling stories of the antebellum era, ranging from Savannah, Georgia to the Carolina coast, with photos included. Members of a shackled West African tribe drag themselves off a slave ship while singing, drowning in a Georgia creek to avoid being sold. Mysterious letters from a long-ruined church near Mepkin Abbey solicit a man to join the faith. A French teacher disappears from a school after marking final exams in blood. An Egyptian mummy triggers a heart attack in a city museum. These stories and more are wrenched from the gravest parts of America’s past—real lives of people on plantations from Savannah to Charleston and the coast of the Carolinas. Richly illustrated with both historic and contemporary images, most deal with the hub of the East Coast slave trade, Charleston, South Carolina. Sifting through folklore, legends, and emotionally raw history, these stories relate encounters with the supernatural—and reminds us that what actually happened here doesn’t always need a ghost to be disquieting.
The Slavery Ghosts
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Author : Luke Wallin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-07-22
The Slavery Ghosts written by Luke Wallin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-22 with Fiction categories.
Jake, thirteen, and his sister, twelve, live at Tapalyla Hill, a Mississippi mansion built before the Civil War. In their garden they meet Sarantha, a ghost who’ll do anything to free her daughter, Darcy, from the evil beneath the house. Jake and Livy pass through a timegate to attempt the rescue. They will bring back a far better grasp of their own family and culture than they could have imagined.
Feeding The Ghosts
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Author : Fred D'Aguiar
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2014-02-06
Feeding The Ghosts written by Fred D'Aguiar and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-06 with Fiction categories.
'The sea is slavery.' Inspired by a true story, this suspenseful and moving book chronicles an incident of courage and rebellion that took place aboard a disease-riddled slave ship, the Zong, returning from Africa. When illness threatens to infect all on board, the ship's captain orders his crew to seize the sick slaves - men, women and children - and throw them into the sea. But one female slave, Mintah, survives drowning and secretly climbs back onto the ship. From her hiding place, she attempts to rouse the remaining captives to rebel against the killings, becoming a dangerous force on the ship. A trial is held upon the ship's arrival to determine liability for the 131 missing slaves. The crew is nearly absolved of responsibility until Mintah's journal is produced, which directly contradicts the crew's accounts. The final words belong to Mintah, whose first-person account of her life after the Zong is troubling and dramatic. D'Aguiar's spare prose starkly reveals the inner lives of First Mate Kelsall, Mintah and the crew members as they face the moral weight of this atrocity. D'Aguiar's imagery is haunting, his characters' thoughts complex and the mood is darkly compelling.
Theatre And Slavery
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Author : Michael Walling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Theatre And Slavery written by Michael Walling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with African drama (English) categories.
Black Ghost Of Empire
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Author : Kris Manjapra
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-04-19
Black Ghost Of Empire written by Kris Manjapra and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-19 with Social Science categories.
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after the revolution, in the British Empire in 1833, in the United States during the Civil War. Yet in Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian Kris Manjapra argues that during each of these supposed emancipations, Black people were dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them. Emancipation, in other words, simply codified the existing racial caste system - rather than obliterating it. Ranging across the Americas, Europe and Africa, Manjapra unearths disturbing truths about the Age of Emancipations, 1780-1880. In Britain, reparations were given to wealthy slaveowners, not the enslaved, a vast debt that was only paid off in 2015, and the crucial role of Black abolitionists and rebellions in bringing an end to slavery has been overlooked. In Jamaica, Black people were liberated only to enter into an apprenticeship period harsher than slavery itself. In the American South, the formerly enslaved were 'freed' into a system of white supremacy and racial terror. Across Africa, emancipation served as an alibi for colonization. None of these emancipations involved atonement by the enslavers and their governments for wrongs committed, or reparative justice for the formerly enslaved-an omission that grassroots Black organizers and activists are rightly seeking to address today. Black Ghost of Empire will rewire readers' understanding of the world in which we live. Paradigm-shifting, lucid and courageous, this book shines a light into the enigma of slavery's supposed death, and its afterlives.
Tales From The Haunted South
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Author : Tiya Miles
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2015-08-12
Tales From The Haunted South written by Tiya Miles and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-12 with History categories.
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.
The Imagery Of Sea And Land In Fred D Aguiar S Feeding The Ghosts
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Author : Marco Sievers
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2009
The Imagery Of Sea And Land In Fred D Aguiar S Feeding The Ghosts written by Marco Sievers and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Hannover (Englisches Seminar), course: HS Caribbean Literature and Culture, language: English, abstract: (...) The novel belongs to the genre of the Caribbean novels, and, as a historical fiction about the slave trade, provocatively combines historical and imaginative elements. Thus, it can be subsumed under the term "revisionist historical novel", which, according to Ansgar Nünning, denotes novels that maintain a positive tension between their status as literature and their status as history (cf. Thieme, 1121; Pichler, 6, 11). Feeding the Ghosts is based on the infamous "Zong Massacre" which took place in 1781. It was an incident in which 133 slaves were thrown overboard an English slave ship, leading to a civil action in the same year by the ship's owners, who sued their insurers for compensation for the dead slaves. The publicity about the law suit and the concluding verdict, which confirmed the legal status of slaves as cargo, fostered abolitionist support and made them a landmark of the battle against British slave trade in the 18th century. Due to growing public indignation a parliamentary act was finally passed in 1790, which ruled out insurance claims resulting from slave mortality or the jettison of slaves on any account (cf. Low, 106 et seq.; Pichler, 6; Philp, 245; Baucom, 61 et seq., Frias 421, Schatteman, 234; James, 327). In order to recreate the trauma of the Middle Passage D' Aguiar's fictionalised treatment of the Zong Massacre and of the subsequent trial mainly focuses on the reconstruction of the events from a slave girl's point of view, (cf. Schatteman, 234, Phil, 245; Carr, Pichler, 11). Since the most prominent feature of D' Aguiar's fiction is his poetic style, which is an object of acclaim as well as of critical reprimand (cf. Steward, 68; Figueredo, 211; Frias, 418; James, 327; Bovenschen; Low, 110; Schatteman, 23
Unspeakable Things Unspoken
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Author : Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Unspeakable Things Unspoken written by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with African American women categories.