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Repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade : the interior of the Bight of the Biafra and the African diaspora / edited by Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy.

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Repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade : the interior of the Bight of the Biafra and the African diaspora / edited by Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy.
Publication
Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Afigbo, A. E. (Adiele Eberechukwu)
  • Brown, Carolyn A. (Carolyn Anderson), 1944-
  • Lovejoy, Paul E.
Description
xii, 387 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
The Harriet Tubman series on African diaspora
Uniform Title
Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora.
Subject
  • Slave trade > Biafra, Bight of, Region > History
  • Slavery > Biafra, Bight of, Region > History
  • Slavery > America > History
  • Biafra, Bight of, Region > Social conditions
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • The Bight of Biafra and slavery / Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy -- The era of trans-Atlantic slave trade -- 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 / Johnston 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 -- Those Ibos! : Jus upped and walked away : the story of the slaves at Ibo landing as transcendent ritual / Abena P.A. Busia -- Igbo diaspora in the Americas -- A quality of anguish : the Igbo response to enslavement in the Americas / Michael 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 --
  • Questioning 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 -- Equiano on Igbo warfare / A.E. Afigbo -- Aftermath of the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- Niger River trade and the interregnum at Aboh, 1844-1862 / Femi 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 Omenka -- Contemporary memories of enslavement -- Semantic implications of "ohu" and "amadi" : 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.
ISBN
  • 1592217656 (hardcover)
  • 9781592217656 (hardcover)
  • 1592217664 (pbk.)
  • 9781592217663 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2010020972
OCLC
  • 637708983
  • SCSB-11936885
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library