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Slavery -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Slave trade -- Biafra, Bight of, Region -- History.
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Slavery -- Biafra, Bight of, Region -- History.
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Black people -- America -- Social conditions.
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Slavery -- America -- History.
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Biafra, Bight of, Region -- Social conditions.
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xii, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
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Selected papers originally presented at a conference held in Nigeria in 2000. |
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 . |
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Brown, Carolyn A. (Carolyn Anderson), 1944-
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Lovejoy, Paul E.
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Enechukwu, Anayo, 1961-
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Soulodre-La France, Renée
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ISBN |
9781592213580 (pbk.) |
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1592213588 (pbk.) |
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9781592213573 (hbk.) |
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159221357X (hbk.) |
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