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Author:

Greene, Sandra E., 1952-

Title:

West African narratives of slavery : texts from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ghana / Sandra E. Greene.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 280 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Slave narratives--Ghana--History and criticism.
Slavery--Ghana--History.
Slave trade--Ghana--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Aaron Kuku : the life history of a former slave -- Enslavement remembered -- The life history of Aaron Kuku -- The biographies of Lydia Yawo and Yosef Famfantor : life in slavery/life after abolition -- To stay or go : exploring the decisions of the formerly enslaved -- Come over and help us! : the life journey of Lydia Yawo, a freed slave -- Yosef Famfantor -- Paul Sands's diary : living with the past/constructing the present and the future -- Open secrets and sequestered stories : a diary about family, slavery, and self in southeastern Ghana -- The diary of Paul Sands : excerpts -- A kidnapping at Atorkor : the making of a community memory -- Our citizens, our kin enslaved -- Oral traditions about individuals enslaved.

ISBN:

025322294X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253222947 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253356075 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253356079 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)613435501

LCCN:

2010035373

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)