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London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
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9781474256650
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction Rebecca Shumway and Trevor R. Getz
PART I The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery
before Colonial Rule
1 Ghana and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Rebecca Shumway
2 “Tied Up”: Slave Relics in Traditional Political Leadership
in Burugu, Northern Ghana Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu
3 “Earth from a Dead Negro’s Grave”: Ritual Technologies and
Mortuary Realms in the Eighteenth-Century Gold
Coast Diaspora Walter C. Rucker
4 Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth Century Fanteland Rebecca Shumway 85
PART II Slavery and Abolition Under British Colonial
Rule (1874–1957)
5 The Claims Wives Made: Slavery and Marriage in the LateNineteenth-Century Gold Coast Colony
and Protectorate Trevor R. Getz
6 Signs of an African Emancipation? Slavery and its
Resolution in the Reports (1868–1900) of a Ghanaian
Pastor—Kofi Theophilus Opoku Paul Jenkins
7 An African Abolitionist on the Gold Coast: The Case of
Francis P. Fearon Steffen Runkel
PART III Memory, Heritage, and the Legacy of Slavery
8 Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Shared History or
Shared Heritage? Wilhelmina J. Donkoh
9 The Legacy of Indigenous Slavery in
Ghana Akosua Adoma Perbi
10 Charged Memories: The Slave Trade in
Contemporary Political Discourse Bayo Holsey
Afterword Ray A. Kea
Select Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction Rebecca Shumway and Trevor R. Getz
PART I The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery
before Colonial Rule
1 Ghana and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Rebecca Shumway
2 “Tied Up”: Slave Relics in Traditional Political Leadership
in Burugu, Northern Ghana Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu
3 “Earth from a Dead Negro’s Grave”: Ritual Technologies and
Mortuary Realms in the Eighteenth-Century Gold
Coast Diaspora Walter C. Rucker
4 Anti-Slavery in Nineteenth Century Fanteland Rebecca Shumway 85
PART II Slavery and Abolition Under British Colonial
Rule (1874–1957)
5 The Claims Wives Made: Slavery and Marriage in the LateNineteenth-Century Gold Coast Colony
and Protectorate Trevor R. Getz
6 Signs of an African Emancipation? Slavery and its
Resolution in the Reports (1868–1900) of a Ghanaian
Pastor—Kofi Theophilus Opoku Paul Jenkins
7 An African Abolitionist on the Gold Coast: The Case of
Francis P. Fearon Steffen Runkel
PART III Memory, Heritage, and the Legacy of Slavery
8 Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Shared History or
Shared Heritage? Wilhelmina J. Donkoh
9 The Legacy of Indigenous Slavery in
Ghana Akosua Adoma Perbi
10 Charged Memories: The Slave Trade in
Contemporary Political Discourse Bayo Holsey
Afterword Ray A. Kea
Select Bibliography
Index