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ENHANCEMENTS

Table of contents, List of characters, Glossary, Synopsis, Script, Stories, Maps, Pictures, Author Index, Publisher Index

TEXTS AND SOURCES

Africa, Europeans, The Love of Liberty (Middle Passage), America, Epilogue, Attitudes to Slavery, Other Matters

ISSUES

Authenticity/plausibility, the Middle Passage in Fiction, Memories of the Middle Passage, African Participation in the Slave Trade, the Atlantic Slave Trade in the Curriculum of American Schools, Racism, Reparations

OTHER INFORMATION

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Films, UNESCO Slave Route, Museums, Conferences, Slavery in the World Today, other links.
Ama, a Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Author, Publisher, Acknowledgments

Miscellaneous

African Literature, Tourism in Ghana and Brazil, Electronic Publishing

REACTIONS 

News & Reviews; Kind Words; Ama used in an academic environment

COPYRIGHT ISSUES 

 

I would like to see slavery viewed from the perspective of the Africans who were victims of it . . .

John Hunwick
H-Net Discussion List on History and Study of West Africa
[H-WEST-AFRICA@H-NET.MSU.EDU]
18 November 1999

. . . how the creative imagination dares to probe those dark recesses of a lived experience so traumatic that formal historiography is often unable to document it in all its complexities. . .

Kofi Anyidoho

Symposium announcement

DOCUMENTING AFRICAN EXPERIENCE OF SLAVERY: History, Literature, Film