Routes of Remembrance Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana

Name: Routes of Remembrance Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana
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ISBN: 9780226349763

ISBN-10: 0226349764

ISBN-13: 9780226349763

Edition: 2008

Authors: Bayo Holsey

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Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement? And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the Atlantic? Routes of Remembrancetackles these questions by analyzing the slave trade’s absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian family and community histories, its troubled presentation…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Akan Orthography


Introduction



Sequestering the Slave Trade



Of Origins: Making Family, Region, Nation



Conundrums of Kinship: Sequestering Slavery, Recalling Kin



Displacing the Past: Imagined Geographies of Enslavement



In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity



E-Race-ing History: Schooling and National Identity



Centering the Slave Trade



Slavery and the Making of Black Atlantic History



Navigating New Histories


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography