Most important issues of today's world - such as development, human rights, and cultural pluralism - bear the unmistakable stamp of the transatlantic slave trade. In particular Africa's state of development can only be properly understood in the light of the widespread dismantling of African societies and the methodical and lasting human bloodletting to which the continent was subjected by way of the trans-Saharan and transatlantic slave trade over the centuries. But this greatest displacement of population in history also transformed the vast geo-cultural area of the Americas and the Caribbean.
In this volume, one result of UNESCO's project Memory of Peoples: The Slave Route, scholars and thinkers from Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean have come together to raise some crucial questions and offer new perspectives on debates that have lost none of their urgency.
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"This book is valuable not simply for the rich and varied voices it has to offer. It provides the reader with links to resources, both academic and literary, in French, Spanish, and Portuguese that can greatly expand the horizons of anglophone scholars." * International Journal of African Historical Studies
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Höhe: 229 mm
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978-1-57181-266-7 (9781571812667)
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Doudou Diene of Senegal was United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance in 2002-2008.
List of Tables
Preface
Foreword
Nicephore Soglo
'The Body of Memory'
Mohammed Kacimi
From the Slave Trade to the Challenge of Development: Reflections on the Conditions for World Peace
Doudou Diene
Popularisation of the History of the Slave Trade
Ibrahima Baba Kake
Part I: History, Memory and Archives of the Slave Trade
Chapter 1. Women, Marriage and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Black Africa during the Precolonial Period
Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Chapter 2. The Travel and Transport of Slaves
Mame-Kouna Tondut-Sene
Chapter 3. The Transition from the Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce
Robin Law
Chapter 4. Submarine Archaeology and the History of the Slave Trade
Max Guerout
Chapter 5. Origins of the Slaves in the Lima Region in Peru (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
Jean-Pierre Tardieu
Chapter 6. Returning Afro-Brazilians
Bellarmin C. Codo
Chapter 7. The Slave Trade to Russia
Dieudonne Gnammankou
Part II: Demographic Impact and Economic and Social Dimensions of the Slave Trade
Chapter 8. From the Slave Trade to Underdevelopment
Yves Benot
Chapter 9. The Unmeasured Hazards of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Sources, Causes and Historiographical Implications
Joseph E. Inikori
Chapter 10. The Slave Trade and the Demographic Evolution of Africa
Patrick Manning
Chapter 11. The Mental Route of the Slave: A Few Thoughts Inspired by the Present-Day Situation of the Black Peoples
Joseph Ki-Zerbo
Chapter 12. The Conditions of Slaves in the Americas
Paul E. Lovejoy
Chapter 13. Slavery and Society in the Caribbean (1900-1930)
Francisco Lopez Segrera
Part III: Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery, and Changing Mentalities
Chapter 14. The Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery: Historical Foundations
Joseph C. Miller
Chapter 15. The Liberated Slaves and the Question of the Return to Africa: Interaction along the Upper Guinea Coast
Florence Omolara Mahoney
Chapter 16. Former African and Malagasy Freed Slaves: Comprehensive Listing and Conclusions
Norbert Benoit
Chapter 17. Slavery in Law Codes
Lluis Sala-Molins
Chapter 18. The Incomplete Past of Slavery: The African Heritage in the Social Reality, Subconsciousness and Imagination of Guadeloupe
Dany Bebel-Gisler
Chapter 19. From the Slave Trade to the 'Screening' of Immigrants
Hagen Kordes
Chapter 20. The Slave's World of the Imagination: Outline of the Foundations of Caribbean Thought
Hugues Liborel-Pochot
Chapter 21. Slaves and Slavery in the Study of Fon Proverbs in Benin
Jean-Norbert Vignonde
Chapter 22. Some Remarks on the Christian Churches and the Atlantic Slave Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Alphonse Quenum
Chapter 23. The Abolitions of Slavery (1793, 1794, 1848): Overview of a Symposium
Marcel Dorigny
Part IV: Contributions, Continuity and Cultural Dynamics
Chapter 24. The All-Americas/All-American African Diaspora
Sheila S. Walker
Chapter 25. The Role of Africa and Blacks in the Building of the Americas: Focus on Colombia
Nina S. de Friedemann
Chapter 26. The African Presence in Brazil
Kabengele Munanga
Chapter 27. Influence of African Art on American Art
Joseph C.E. Adande
Chapter 28. Resilience and Transformation in Varieties of African Musical Elements in Latin America
Kazadi wa Mukuna
Chapter 29. African Survivals in the Secular Popular Culture of the Americas
Yolande Behanzin-Joseph-Noel
Chapter 30. Survivals and Dynamism of African Cultures in the Americas
Olabiyi B. Yai
Chapter 31. African Religions in the Americas: A Structural Analysis
Guerin C. Montilus
Chapter 32. The Persistence of Clan Identities among Slaves through the Vodun and Orisha Religious Cults
Jacqueline Roumeguere-Eberhardt
Chapter 33. The Influence of Blacks in the Americas
Luz Maria Martinez-Montiel
Part V: The Slave Trade and International Co-operation
Chapter 34. Towards the Pedagogy of the History of the Slave Trade
Jean-Michel Deveau
Chapter 35. Slavery, Genocide or Holocaust?
Roger Some
Chapter 36. Diasporas, Multiculturalism and Solidarity in the Caribbean
Julie Lirus-Galap
Chapter 37. The Slave Trade and Cultural Tourism
Clement Koudessa Lokossou
Chapter 38. The Slave Route to the Rio de la Plata: From the Slave Trade to the Contemporary Cultural Dialogue
Nilda Beatriz Anglarill
Notes on Contributors
