Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.
Contents
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 -- 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 -- 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 Slave Coast -- Reparations as rememory and redress.
