Slavery and its legacy in Ghana and the diaspora / edited by Rebecca Shumway and Trevor R. Getz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shumway, Rebecca, editor.

Getz, Trevor R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Ghana--History.

Slave trade.

Slavery--Ghana--History.

Slavery.

History.

Ghana.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

Ghana-for all its notable strides toward more egalitarian political and social systems in the past 60 years-remains a nation plagued with inequalities stemming from its long history of slavery and slave trading. The work assembled in this collection explores the history of slavery in Ghana and its legacy for both Ghana and the descendants of people sold as slaves from the "Gold Coast" in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. The volume is structured to reflect four overlapping areas of investigation: the changing nature of slavery in Ghana, including the ways in which enslaved people have been integrated into or excluded from kinship systems, social institutions, politics, and the workforce over time; the long-standing connections forged between Ghana and the Americas and Europe through the transatlantic trading system and the forced migration of enslaved people; the development of indigenous and transnational anti-slavery ideologies; and the legacy of slavery and its ongoing reverberations in Ghanaian and diasporic society. Bringing together key scholars from Ghana, Europe and the USA who introduce new sources, frames and methodologies including heritage, gender, critical race, and culture studies, and drawing on archival documents and oral histories, Slavery and Its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora will be of great interest to scholars and students of comparative slavery, abolition and West African history.

Contents:

Part 1 The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery before Colonial Rule

1 Ghana and the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Rebecca Shumway Shumway, Rebecca 29

2 "Tied Up": Slave Relics in Traditional Political Leadership in Burugu, Northern Ghana Samuel / Aniegye Ntewusti Ntewusti, Aniegye 46

3 "Earth from a Dead Negro's Grave": Ritual Technologies and Mortuary Realms in the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast Diaspora / Walter C. Rucker Rucker, Walter C. 62

4 Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth Century Fanteland / Rebecca Shumway Shumway, Rebecca 85

Part 2 Slavery and Abolition Under British Colonial Rule (1874-1957)

5 The Claims Wives Made: Slavery and Marriage in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast Colony and Protectorate / Trevor R. Getz Getz, Trevor R. 107

6 Signs of an African Emancipation? Slavery and its Resolution in the Reports (1868-1900) of a Ghanaian Pastor-Kofi Theophilus Opoku / Paul Jenkins Jenkins, Paul 126

7 An African Abolitionist on the Gold Coast: The Case of Francis P. Fearon / Steffen Runkel Runkel, Steffen 156

Part 3 Memory, Heritage, and the Legacy of Slavery

8 Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Shared History or Shared Heritage? / Wilhelmina J. Donkoh Donkoh, Wilhelmina J. 181

9 The Legacy of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana / Akosua Adoma Perbi Perbi, Akosua Adoma 202

10 Charged Memories: The Slave Trade in Contemporary Political Discourse / Bayo Holsey Holsey, Bayo 219.

ISBN:

1474256635

9781474256636

OCLC:

961002052