African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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Introduction: from the Middle Passage to middle quarters, Jamaica: the transformation of a personal journey - The incident at Atorkor: a break with the past - African agency in the Atlantic slave trade: realities and perceptions - African resistance: 'The slave who whipt her mistress and ganed her fredom' and other oral and written tales - European and American agency in the Atlantic slave trade: from raid and trade to operational breakdown - The social and political impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the old Slave Coast - Subversion of the sacred: the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on Anlo Ewe religious organizations - Reparations as rememory and redress.