West African narratives of slavery: texts from late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Ghana

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Contents Acknowledgments A Note on the Translations A Note on Ewe Orthography Introduction Part 1. Aaron Kuku: The Life History of a Former Slave 1. Enslavement Remembered 2. The Life History of Aaron Kuku Part 2. The Biographies of Lydia Yawo and Yosef Famfantor: Life in Slavery/Life after Abolition 3. To Stay or Go: Exploring the Decisions of the Formerly Enslaved 4. Come Over and Help Us! The Life Journey of Lydia Yawo, a Freed Slave 5. Yosef Famfantor Part 3. Paul Sands's Diary: Living with the Past/Constructing the Present and the Future 6. Open Secrets and Sequestered Stories: A Diary about Family, Slavery, and Self in Southeastern Ghana 7. The Diary of Paul Sands: Excerpts Part 4. A Kidnapping at Atorkor: The Making of a Community Memory 8. Our Citizens, Our Kin Enslaved 9. Oral Traditions about Individuals Enslaved Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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