African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on - Sources and Method

Informationen zum Autor Alice Bellagamba is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology in the Department of Human Sciences for Education 'Riccardo Massa' at the University of Milan-Bicocca. Sandra E. Greene is Professor of African History in the Department of History at Cornell University. Martin A. Klein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Explores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa. Zusammenfassung This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. It will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery! the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: sources and methods - writing about African slavery and the slave trade Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene and Martin A. Klein; 1. Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery and slave trade in Western Africa Ghislaine Lydon and Bruce Hall; 2. Christian missionaries on record: documenting slavery and the slave trade from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth century Sandra E. Greene; 3. Early-modern European-language sources on African slavery: the historian at work Pierluigi Valsecchi; 4. African intellectual ideas in the age of legal slavery and the slave trade Sandra E. Greene and Oluwatoyin Oduntan; 5. Looking for slavery in colonial archives: French West Africa Martin A. Klein; 6. Slave voices in African colonial courts: sources and methods Kristin Mann and Richard Roberts; 7. Understanding African slavery past through spirit possession Alessandra Brivio; 8. Yesterday and today: oral representations of the past and the legacy of African slavery Alice Bellagamba.

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• Authors: Alice Greene Bellagamba, EDITED BY ALICE BELL
• Assisted by: Alice Bellagamba (Editor), Bellagamba Alice (Editor), Sandra E. Greene (Editor), Sandra E. (Cornell University Greene (Editor), Greene Sandra E. (Editor), Martin A. Klein (Editor), Martin A. (University of Toronto) Klein (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780521145299
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14529-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Oral History, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, General & world history, African History, General and world history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery