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.
Author(s): Doudou Diène
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing / Berghahn Books
Year: 2001
Language: English
Commentary: scantailor + ocrmypdf
Pages: 500
City: Paris / Oxford / New York
Tags: atlantic slave trade;colonialism
From Chains to Bonds
Contents
List of Tables
5.1 Origins of Peruvian Bozales, 1560-1650
5.2 Origins of Blacks of the Parish of San Marcelo de Lima, 1583-89
5.3 Origins of Blacks of Hernay, Chincha, Pisco, Caucato and Condor, 1632
5.4 Origins of Blacks of the Parish of San Marcelo de Lima, 1640-80
5.5 Origins of Blacks in Lima, 1630-1702
19.1 SOS Racism (1)
19.2 SOS Racism (2)
26.1 Estimated Population of Brazil
26.2 Estimated Slave Population of Brazil
26.3 Population by Skin Colour
26.4 Evolution of the Brazilian Population by Skin Colour
Preface
Foreword by Nicéphore Soglo
‘The Body of Memory’ by Mohammed Kacimi
From the Slave Trade to the Challenge of Development: Reflections on the Conditions for World Peace (Doudou Diéne)
Popularisation of the History of the Slave Trade (Ibrahima Baba Kaké)
Part I History, Memory and Archives of the Slave Trade
1. Women, Marriage and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Black Africa during the Precolonial Period (Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch)
2. The Travel and Transport of Slaves (Mame-Kouna Tondut-Séne)
3. The Transition from the Slave Trade to ‘Legitimate’ Commerce (Robin Law)
4. Submarine Archaeology and the History of the Slave Trade (Max Guérout)
5. Origins of the Slaves in the Lima Region in Peru (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) (Jean-Pierre Tardieu)
6. Returning Afro-Brazilians (Bellarmin C. Codo)
7. The Slave Trade to Russia (Dieudonné Gnammankou)
Part II Demographic Impact and Economic and Social Dimensions of the Slave Trade
8. From the Slave Trade to Underdevelopment (Yves Bénot)
9. The Unmeasured Hazards of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Sources, Causes and Historiographical Implications (Joseph E. Inikori)
10. The Slave Trade and the Demographic Evolution of Africa (Patrick Manning)
11. The Mental Route of the Slave: A Few Thoughts Inspired by the Present-Day Situation of the Black Peoples (Joseph Ki-Zerbo)
12. The Conditions of Slaves in the Americas (Paul E. Lovejoy)
13. Slavery and Society in the Caribbean (1900-1930) (Francisco Lopez Segrera)
Part III Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery, and Changing Mentalities
14. The Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery: Historical Foundations (Joseph C. Miller)
15. The Liberated Slaves and the Question of the Return to Africa: Interaction along the Upper Guinea Coast (Florence Omolara Mahoney)
16. Former African and Malagasy Freed Slaves: Comprehensive Listing and Conclusions (Norbert Benoit)
17. Slavery in Law Codes (Lluis Sala-Molins)
18. The Incomplete Past of Slavery: The African Heritage in the Social Reality, Subconsciousness and Imagination of Guadeloupe (Dany Bébel-Gisler)
19. From the Slave Trade to the ‘Screening’ of Immigrants (Hagen Kordes)
20. The Slave’s World of the Imagination: Outline of the Foundations of Caribbean Thought (Hugues Liborel-Pochot)
21. Slaves and Slavery in the Study of Fon Proverbs in Benin (Jean-Norbert Vignondé)
22. Some Remarks on the Christian Churches and the Atlantic Slave Trade from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century (Alphonse Quenum)
23. The Abolitions of Slavery (1793, 1794, 1848): Overview of a Symposium (Marcel Dorigny)
Part IV Contributions, Continuity and Cultural Dynamics
24. The All-Americas/All-American African Diaspora (Sheila S. Walker)
25. The Role of Africa and Blacks in the Building of the Americas: Focus on Colombia (Nina S. de Friedemann)
26. The African Presence in Brazil (Kabengele Munanga)
27. Influence of African Art on American Art (Joseph C.E. Adande)
28. Resilience and Transformation in Varieties of African Musical Elements in Latin America (Kazadi wa Mukuna)
29. African Survivals in the Secular Popular Culture of the Americas (Yolande Behanzin-Joseph-Noél)
30. Survivals and Dynamism of African Cultures in the Americas (Olabiyi B. Yai)
31. African Religions in the Americas: A Structural Analysis (Guérin C. Montilus)
32. The Persistence of Clan Identities among Slaves through the Vodun and Orisha Religious Cults (Jacqueline Roumeguére-Eberhardt)
33. The Influence of Blacks in the Americas (Luz Maria Martinez-Montiel)
Part V The Slave Trade and International Co-operation
34. Towards the Pedagogy of the History of the Slave Trade (Jean-Michel Deveau)
35. Slavery, Genocide or Holocaust? (Roger Somé)
36. Diasporas, Multiculturalism and Solidarity in the Caribbean (Julie Lirus-Galap)
37. The Slave Trade and Cultural Tourism (Clément Koudessa Lokossou)
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
