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African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame Hardcover – January 1, 2005

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The first history of the Atlantic slave trade culled from the memories of those Africans left behind . . . it will forever alter our understanding of the Middle Passage. Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo Mamas Disfunktional!

The story of the Atlantic slave trade has largely been filtered through the eyes and records of white Europeans, but in this watershed book, Anne C. Bailey focuses on memories of the trade from the African perspective. African chiefs and other elders in an area of southeastern Ghana once famously called the Old Slave Coast share stories that reveal that Africans were both traders and victims of the trade. Though Africans were not equal partners with Europeans, their involvement had devastating consequences on their history and sense of identity.

Like victims of trauma, many African societies now experience a fragmented view of their past that partially explains the blanket of silence and shame around the slave trade. Capturing astonishing oral histories that were handed down through generations of storytellerslike an 1856 incident involving the kidnapping of famous drummers and traders by Europeans and AmericansBailey breaks the deafening silence around slavery and explores the delicate and fragmented nature of historical memory in this rare, unprecedented book.

In a path-breaking work, Anne C. Bailey utilizes the power of oral traditions to reconstruct the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade. The book powerfully illuminates the importance of the concrete cultural survival of African traditions within the Atlantic slave trade and slavery. Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine Segal Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, and chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights

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978-0807055120
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Focusing on the stories passed down from generation to generation among the Anlo Ewe community in southern Ghana—an area once known as the Slave Coast—Spelman College historian Bailey offers a noteworthy, carefully researched contribution to the study of the African slave trade. Few accounts in the copious literature have adequately addressed the African viewpoint, says Bailey, and the oral histories she offers are designed to correct that silence. Examples include "the incident at Atorkor": sometime in the 1850s, a breakdown in the working (though unequal) relationship between white slave traders and a coastal African chief—the chief's kin were taken along with inland, "approved" captives—heralded a new phase in the slave trade, one in which African slave traders became nearly as vulnerable as their African captives. In compact chapters, Bailey considers the political and economic impact of the slave trade on the West African region; West and Central Africa's class-based practices of domestic slavery; and the issue of European, American and African agency in the slave trade. Though dense prose makes this a better choice for the scholar than the lay reader, Bailey brings unheard historical voices to the fore.
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Historian Bailey focuses on the slave trade from the African perspective. As there are few written African records, in contrast to those found in Europe and the Americas, on this topic, she centers her study on the oral tradition, what she refers to as "African human libraries." She primarily focuses on a region in Ghana around one particular oral remembrance told from various perspectives. At the center of this story was an instance when the dominant clan, who had participated in the slave trade by capturing people from the interior for sale, had some of their own members tricked onto a slave ship never to return. One version records the chief as a victim; others record him as a collaborator. In both versions, this story reflected a turning point in this society, where all become vulnerable to the slave trade. Bailey explores the silence surrounding the slave trade and practices including domestic slavery, a legacy that continues today even where these slaves have been married into their masters' families. A fascinating perspective on slavery from the African continent. Vernon Ford
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Pr; First Edition first Printing (January 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 289 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807055123
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807055120
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.5 inches

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Anne C. Bailey is a writer, historian, and professor of History at SUNY Binghamton (State University of New York). In her works of non fiction, she combines elements of travel, adventure, history, and an understanding of contemporary issues with an accessible style. She is a US citizen who grew up in Jamaica, WI and in Brooklyn, New York.

Bailey’s specialty is history from below - the stories of ordinary people living in extraordinary times. She is also concerned with the reconciliation of communities after age old conflicts like slavery, war and genocide.

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Steve

A Magnificent and Extraordinarily Important Book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2017

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What would our country be like today if there had been no slavery? Imagine the increase in our current population if some 600,000 whites and blacks hadn’t lost their lives in the Civil War; imagine blacks being welcomed to our shores as first-class citizens and offered equal opportunities, most particularly educational opportunities; imagine a nation which considered skin color irrelevant; imagine; imagine, imagine … .

Instead, slavery to a great extent has brought us to where we are today, a nation still divided and haunted by anti-black racism more than 150 years after the very last slave was freed, A NATION WHERE, WHEN BLACKS FIRST ARRIVED IN AMERICA, THEY WERE CONSIDERED NO BETTER THAN FARM ANIMALS THUS SOWING THE VERY SEEDS OF HATRED AND PREJUDICE WE SO OFTEN HEAR ABOUT AND READ EVERY SINGLE DAY. How did this all come about?

In her mesmerizing book African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame, Professor Anne C. Bailey describes for us as best anyone can the origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade and what drove Europeans, Americans and even Africans to pursue this god-awful business. Making a number of trips to Africa, interviewing countless Africans and to some extent relying on the research of others, Dr. Bailey attempts to explain this dreadful phenomenon. However, for her the journey was far from easy. Why? Because the slave trade’s history is unwritten—its history is oral, passed down from one generation to the next. Yet those Africans whose ancestors either engaged in the trade or were its victims are so ashamed of their past that, for the most part, they are unwilling (maybe even unable) to talk about it. Still, through persistence spanning many years Dr. Bailey did learn about the trade’s origins and workings and shares all this with us in her magnificent book.

Sadly, in our high school and college US history courses little mention is made of the Atlantic Slave Trade. And yet it is of such core importance to what we are today that it must be taught—perhaps “shouted out” is a better term. And that is what Dr. Bailey accomplishes in African Voices, a book that should be required reading in every single high school and college throughout the country.

Highly recommended!

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micheal w turner

Good Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 23, 2022

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I recommend the book, it's well written and full of thought-provoking information.

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KaMau-Mau

For the knowledge seekers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 26, 2010

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For those seeking an in depth look into our holocaust, this is an excellent book. In many books on the subject, they tend to separate different aspects until the reader gets the idea that Africans didn't resist and made it fairly easy for Europe to gain their economical power. By the time I finished, I had the same emotions and thoughts as I did when I watched movies like Mississippi Burning, Rosewood and Roots. If this book doesn't empower you, you probably need to visit Ghana's Elmina dungeon and see it for yourself.

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Emory Sims

Never gets to the point about African resistance to the slave trade

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I am disappointed in the book because it dances around the question of where there resistance by the Africans against the slave trade? and the answer is no. She goes on and on and on and on, and she never gets to the point. She even says that large African tribes had control over the selling of their people to say that at one point the African chief stopped selling the men. Okay, they stopped selling the men, but there is no record of Africans fighting as a group of people to resist the slave trade. The truth is Africans sold their own people into slavery for over 400 years nonstop without firing one single shot or one arrow to resist the slave trade. There is no record of it!

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Lesley Barker

We modern Americans want to be able to tell our ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 18, 2017

We modern Americans want to be able to tell our history in mutually acceptable broad statements but this can never happen without leaving huge gaps in the stories. Anne Bailey's African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade is a huge contribution to the history of American slavery. It relies on years of oral history interviews with African descendants of powerful chiefs and their ilk who profited by human trafficking during the two centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. It doesn't shift the blame away from the Americans who profited even more and who can be blamed for institutionalizing the racist ideas and prejudices we still express and contend with in our society now. However, by carefully collecting oral memories retained on the African continent about how and why Europeans and Americans were enabled to purchase and enslave people from across the African continent, this book pushes us to think more critically and to come more explicitly to grips with what still wounded issues remain between us should be brought into the light, acknowledged and hopefully, forever, disrupted and displaced by a humility that allows for the opening of a new conversation. This book should be required reading in high school and college classes of American history and culture.

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Hertsgirl

Beyond the slave forts into the hinterland

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 10, 2012

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After you have visited the Slave Forts in Ghana, read this book. Take a walk in African shoes in the time of the Slave Trade....

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Heli

Must have

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Ein sehr wichtiges Bush in die Rassismus-Debatte. Empfehlenswert.

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