Africa Remembered

Eight of the ten personal narratives collected in this volume are the personal reminiscences of Africans who were enslaved and sold on the West coast. They provide a testimony from the other side of the slave trade, all too rare in the abundant literature of the humanitarians. They reveal the thoughts and feelings of men who, unlike thousands of their fellows, had the luck to be liberated and educated; and they provide case studies of a few of West Africa's early élite who linked the late... Voir plus