18. Writing about the slave trade : early-twentieth-century colonial textbooks and their authors / 1. Introduction : Oral traditions, historical tales, and interviews -- 2. Oral traditions about individuals enslaved in Asante / Bayo Holsey. -- 3. "The little things that would please your heart..." : enslavement and slavery in the narrative of Al Haji Bakoyo Suso (The Gambia) / Alice Bellagamba -- 4. Tales of cowries, money, and slaves / Alessandra Brivio -- 5. Oral accounts of slave-master relations from Cameroon noncentralized and centralized polities (1750-1950) / E.S.D. Fomin -- 6. "He who is without family will be the subject of many exactions" : a case from Senegal / Martin A. Klein -- 7. Common themes, individual voices : memories of slavery around a former slave plantation in Mingoyo, Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 8. Slavery in Kano Emirate of Sokoto Caliphate as recounted : testimonies of Isyaku and Idrisu / Mohammed Bashir Salau -- PART 2. The verbal arts and everyday objects. -- 9. Introduction : Songs, prayers, proverbs, and material culture. 10. Singing songs and performing dances with embedded historical meanings in Somalia / Francesca Declich -- 11. Song lyrics as pathways to historical interpretation in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire : the case of Kabasarana / Jeanne Maddox Toungara -- 12. Slave voices from the Cameroon Grassfields : prayers, dirges, and a nuptial chant / E.S.D. Fomin -- 13. Silent testimonies, public memory : slavery in Yoruba proverbs / Olatunji Ojo -- 14. In remembrance of slavery : Tchamba Vodun (Benin and Togo) / Dana Rush. -- PART 3. Documenting our own Histories and cultural practices. -- 15. Introduction : Written accounts by African authors -- 16. Some facets of slavery in the Lamidats of Adamawa in North Cameroon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Ahmadou Sehou -- 17. Etchu Richard Ayuk's manuscript on the slave trade and social segregation in the Ejaghamland / Ute Roschenthaler -- 18. Writing about the slave trade : early-twentieth-century colonial textbooks and their authors / Bayo Holsey. -- 35. A case of kidnapping and child trafficking in Senegal, 1916 / 19. Introduction : Accounts by European travelers -- 20. The story of Saaba : slavery and colonialism in the Algerian Sahara / Richard Roberts. -- 21. Zenneb and Saint-Andre's cruise up the Nile to Dongola : an enslaved woman from Dar Fur (Sudan) and her self-presentation / George Michael La Rue -- 22. The ordeals of slaves' flight in Tunisia / Ismael M. Montana -- 23. African slavery and the slave trade in the manuscript of Jean Godot / Pierluigi Valsecchi. -- PART 5. Administrative records. -- 24. Introduction : Colonial reports and documents -- 25. How Kwadwo regained his freedom and put the slave-traders in big trouble / Pierluigi Valsecchi -- 26. Witchcraft and slavery : accusations of remote vampirism - the colonial administration of Mauritania investigates the execution of three slaves (1928-1929) / Benjamin Acloque -- 27. Tracing their "middle" passages : slave accounts from the nineteenth-century Western Indian Ocean / Hideaki Suzuki -- 28. Gender, migration, and the end of slavery in the region of Kayes, French Soudan / Marie Rodet. -- PART 6. Legal records. -- 29. Introduction : Voices of slaves in the courtroom -- 30. The expulsion of Dalu Modu : a Muslim trader in anti-slavery Freetown / Bruce L. Mouser -- 31. "Being a slave, I was afraid..." : excerpt from a case of slave-dealing in the Colony of the Gambia (1893) / Alice Bellagamba -- 32. Interpreting Gold Coast Supreme Court records, SCT 5/4/19 : Regina (Queen) vs. Quamina Eddoo / Trevor Getz -- 33. A tale of slavery and beyond in a British colonial court record : West Africa and Brazil / Kristin Mann -- 34. Aballow's story : the experience of slavery in mid-nineteenth-century West Africa, as told by herself / Silke Strickrodt -- 35. A case of kidnapping and child trafficking in Senegal, 1916 / Richard Roberts. -- 47. Without history? Interrogating "slave" memories in Ader (Niger) / 36. Introduction : Missionary records -- 37. Experiencing fear and despair : the enslaved and human sacrifice in nineteenth-century southern Ghana / Benedetta Rossi. 38. The testimony of Lamine Filalou : a young man's experience of enslavement and his struggle for freedom in French West Africa / Hilary Jones -- 39. The blood men of Old Calabar - a slave revolt of the nineteenth century? / Ute Roschenthaler -- 40. Makua life histories : testimonies on slavery and the slave trade in nineteenth-century Madagascar / Klara Boyer-Rossol. -- PART 8. Documents from Muslim Africa. -- 41. Introduction : Islamic sources -- 42. The Arabic letters of Ghadames slaves in the Niger Bend, 1860-1900 / Yacine Daddi Addoun -- 43. The "hidden transcripts" and legal rights of slaves in the Muslim world : a legal case from nineteenth-century Mauritania / Ghislaine Lydon -- 44. Slave wills along the Swahili Coast / Elisabeth McMahon. -- PART 9. Living with the past. -- 45. Introduction : Contemporary African societies and the legacy of slavery -- 46. Two Soninke "slave" descendants and their family biographies / Paolo Gaibazzi -- 47. Without history? Interrogating "slave" memories in Ader (Niger) / Benedetta Rossi.
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