Research Catalog

Title

Repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade : the interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African diaspora / edited by Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy ; with the assistance of Anayo Enechukwu and Renée Soulodre-La France.

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

• Brown, Carolyn A. (Carolyn Anderson), 1944-
• Lovejoy, Paul E.
• Enechukwu, Anayo, 1961-
• Soulodre-La France, Renée.

Description

xii, 387 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

Uniform Title

Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora.

Subject

• Slave trade > Biafra, Bight of, Region > History > Congresses
• Slavery > Biafra, Bight of, Region > History > Congresses
• Slavery > America > History > Congresses
• Black people > America > Social conditions > Congresses
• Biafra, Bight of, Region > Social conditions > Congresses

Note

• Selected papers originally presented at a conference held in Nigeria in 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-374) and index.

Contents

The Bight of Biafra and slavery / Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy -- The slave ports of the Bight of Biafra in the eighteenth century / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- Before the Middle Passage : Igbo slave journeys to Old Calabar and Bonny / J. Akuma-Kalu Njoku -- The Atlantic slave trade and the Ohafia warrior tradition : global forces and local histories / John C. McCall -- Osu social outcasts and the Atlantic slave trade / Ichie P.A. Ezikeojiaku -- Equiano on Igbo warfare / A.E. Afigbo -- The anguished Igbo response to enslavement in the Americas / Michael A. Gomez -- Buried treasure : searching with Francisco Castañeda, negro esclavo caravali, in Nueva Granada / Renée Soulodre-La France -- Ekpe in Cuba : the Abakuá secret society, race, and politics / Christine Ayorinde -- Revisiting the identity of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Vincent Carretta -- Autobiography and memory : Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Niger River trade and the interregnum at Aboh, 1844-1862 / Femi J. Kolapo -- Ownership of slaves in Nsukka in the nineteenth century / Christian C. Opata and Damian U. Opata -- From children of Ham to agents of Christ : the place of former slaves in Christian evangelism in the Biafran hinterland / Nicholas Ibeawuchi Omenka -- Semantic implications of "ohu" and "amadi" in the aftermath of slavery in Nkanu and Ezeagu / Nneka Nora Osakwe -- Contestation and identity transformation under colonialism : emancipation struggles in South Nkanu, 1920-1935 / Carolyn A. Brown -- Aro Ikeji festival : historical consciousness and negotiated identities / Eli Bentor -- Precolonial slave relationships in contemporary local politics at Nike / Axel Harneit-Sievers -- The stigmatization of descendants of slaves in Igboland / Paul Obi-Ani -- "Those Ibos! jus' upped and walked away" : the story of the slaves at Ibo Landing as transcendent ritual / Abena P.A. Busia .

Call Number

Sc D 11-359

ISBN

• 9781592213580 (pbk.)
• 1592213588 (pbk.)
• 9781592213573 (hardcover)
• 159221357X (hardcover)
• 9781592217663 (pbk.)
• 1592217664 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004029019

OCLC

664325159

Title

Repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade : the interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African diaspora / edited by Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy ; with the assistance of Anayo Enechukwu and Renée Soulodre-La France.

Imprint

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2011.

Series

The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-374) and index.

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Added Author

Brown, Carolyn A. (Carolyn Anderson), 1944-

Lovejoy, Paul E.

Enechukwu, Anayo, 1961-

Soulodre-La France, Renée.

Research Call Number

Sc D 11-359