Danish Sources for the History of Ghana, 1657-1754
Author: Ole Justesen
Publisher: Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9788773043127
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Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands
Author: Michel René Doortmont
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9004158502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotated guide to the Dutch archives on Ghana and West Africa in the "Nationaal Archief" offering a comprehensive overview of available sources. Part I: description of archival materials. Part II: historical overview of the Dutch in Ghana and selected themes from Ghana's history. With bibliography and index.
Shadows of Empire in West Africa
Author: John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-09-06
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 3319392824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and others to present a nuanced image of fortifications, showing that over time the functions and impacts of the buildings changed as the motives, missions, allegiances, and power dynamics in the region also changed. Focusing on the fortifications of Ghana, the authors discuss how these structures may be interpreted as connecting Ghanaian and West African histories to a multitude of global histories. They also enable greater understanding of the fortifications’ contemporary use as heritage sites, where the Afro-European experience is narrated through guided tours and museums.
Peter Thonning and Denmark's Guinea Commission
Author: Daniel Hopkins
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-12-03
Total Pages: 759
ISBN-13: 9004231994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeveral years before Denmark legislated against the Atlantic slave trade in 1792, the government, anticipating the decline of production in the Danish West Indies as a consequence, embarked on a policy of agricultural colonization in West Africa. Peter Thonning, a young natural historian of the highly economic and geographical Linnaean school, spent three formative years in Africa and then for decades administered Denmark's African colonial undertakings. The international movement of colonial news and ideas can very usefully be traced in his unpublished writings, especially among the Guinea Commission's extraordinarily wide-ranging records. These rich archives and contemporary published opinion in this cosmopolitan Scandinavian society open fresh perspectives on the broader history and geography of European colonialism.
Ports of Globalisation, Places of Creolisation
Author: Holger Weiss
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-11-16
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9004302794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology addresses and analyses the transformation of interconnected spaces and spatial entanglements in the Atlantic rim during the era of the slave trade by focusing on the Danish possessions on the Gold Coast and their Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas, Saint Jan and Saint Croix as well as on the Swedish Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. The first part of the anthology addresses aspects of interconnectedness in West Africa, in particular the relationship between Africans and Danes on the Gold Coast. The second part of this volume examines various aspects of interconnectedness, creolisation and experiences of Danish and Swedish slave rules in the Caribbean. *Ports of Globalisationis now available in paperback for individual customers.
The Akan Diaspora in the Americas
Author: Kwasi Konadu
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2010-05-12
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0195390644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his groundbreaking study of the Akan diaspora, Konadu demonstrates how this cultural group originating in West Africa both engaged in and went beyond the familiar diasporic themes of maroonage, resistance, and freedom. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Akan never formed a majority among other Africans in the Americas. But their leadership skills in war and political organization, efficacy in medicinal plant use and spiritual practice, and culture archived in the musical traditions, language, and patterns of African diasporic life far outweighed their sheer numbers. Konadu argues that a composite Akan culture calibrated between the Gold Coast and forest fringe made the contributions of the Akan diaspora possible. The book examines the Akan experience in Guyana, Jamaica, Antigua, Barbados, former Danish and Dutch colonies, and North America, and how those early experiences foreground the modern engagement and movement of diasporic Africans and Akan people between Ghana and North America. Locating the Akan variable in the African diasporic equation allows scholars and students of the Americas to better understand how the diasporic quilt came to be and is still evolving.
Edward W. Blyden's Intellectual Transformations
Author: Harry N. K. Odamtten
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2019-08-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1628953659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguished by its multidisciplinary dexterity, this book is a masterfully woven reinterpretation of the life, travels, and scholarship of Edward W. Blyden, arguably the most influential Black intellectual of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It traces Blyden’s various moments of intellectual transformation through the multiple lenses of ethnicity, race, religion, and identity in the historical context of Atlantic exchanges, the Back-to-Africa movement, colonialism, and the global Black intellectual movement. In this book Blyden is shown as an African public intellectual who sought to reshape ideas about Africa circulating in the Atlantic world. The author also highlights Blyden’s contributions to different public spheres in Europe, in the Jewish Diaspora, in the Muslim and Christian world of West Africa, and among Blacks in the United States. Additionally, this book places Blyden at the pinnacle of Afropublicanism in order to emphasize his public intellectualism, his rootedness in the African historical experience, and the scholarship he produced about Africa and the African Diaspora. As Blyden is an important contributor to African studies, among other disciplines, this volume makes for critical scholarly reading.
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods
Author: Alice Bellagamba
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1316538788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, possession rituals, Arabic language sources, European missionary, administrative and court records and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. Also discussed are the methodologies that can be used to uncover the often hidden experiences of Africans embedded in these sources. This book will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa.
Slavery and Abolition in the Atlantic World
Author: Jane Landers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1351800434
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights newly-discovered and underutilized sources for the study of slavery and abolition. It features the contributions of scholars who work with Portuguese, Spanish, German, Dutch, and Swedish materials from Europe, Africa and Latin America. Their work draws on legal suits, merchant correspondence, Catholic sacramental records, and rare newspapers dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Essays cover the volume of the early South Atlantic slave trade; African and African-descended religious and cultural communities in Rio de Janeiro and the Spanish circum-Caribbean; Eurafrican trade alliances on the Gold Coast; and public participation in abolition in nineteenth-century Brazil. These essays change and enrich our understandings of slavery and its end in the Atlantic World. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
Author: Alice Bellagamba
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0521199611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how to use different types of sources to write the history of slavery and the slave trade in Africa.
