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- catalog abstract "The story of the early slave trade between Africa and the New World, especially Barbados, is told around the discovery of a wrecked slave ship. The book points out the differences between slavery in the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries.".
- catalog contributor b10233519.
- catalog contributor b10233520.
- catalog contributor b10233521.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Foreword : The ignoble paradox of Western modernity / Cornel West -- Introduction : Spirits / Rosemarie Robotham -- Chattel slavery: the rise of the transatlantic trade. Africa's wealth ; The world context ; The human trade ; The pirate coast of Barbary ; The ransomed children ; Sugar's first slaves ; A latecomer to the trade -- London in the 1690s: the imperatives of commerce. The reckoning ; Up from the ashes ; The way of the guilds ; The apprentice's lot ; Africans in London ; The birth of Western racism ; The new feudal lords ; Squalls at sea ; The lure of the sea ; The fate of the soul -- The slave coast of Africa: a culture plundered. Invoking the ancestors ; "The Igbo make no kings" ; Njinga, the queen-king ; The nature of contact ; A cultural exchange, 1400-1700 ; The measure of bondage ; A life of exile ; Africa's loss -- The middle passage: "the galling of the chains." Let the trading begin ; Wood shelves and yams ; A stolen child ; "Last friend, death" ; The planter's son ; A floating hell ; The "good" captains ; The price of a dead slave ; State of grace -- The Americas: tales of resistance and survival. Equiano's burden ; Joseph Cinque and the case of the Amistad mutiny ; King sugar ; Indentured lives ; Migrations of the planter class ; The forbearance of women ; Color matters ; Kinship rituals ; Maroon culture ; Healing Africa's children ; The long voyage home ; Spirits in the water -- Afterword : The wreck of the Henrietta Marie / Madeleine Burnside.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-184) and index.".
- catalog description "The story of the early slave trade between Africa and the New World, especially Barbados, is told around the discovery of a wrecked slave ship. The book points out the differences between slavery in the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries.".
- catalog extent "192 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Spirits of the passage.".
- catalog identifier "0684818191".
- catalog isFormatOf "Spirits of the passage.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Editions,".
- catalog relation "Spirits of the passage.".
- catalog spatial "Africa".
- catalog subject "326/.09182/1 20".
- catalog subject "HT1322 .B78 1997".
- catalog subject "Slave trade Africa History 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword : The ignoble paradox of Western modernity / Cornel West -- Introduction : Spirits / Rosemarie Robotham -- Chattel slavery: the rise of the transatlantic trade. Africa's wealth ; The world context ; The human trade ; The pirate coast of Barbary ; The ransomed children ; Sugar's first slaves ; A latecomer to the trade -- London in the 1690s: the imperatives of commerce. The reckoning ; Up from the ashes ; The way of the guilds ; The apprentice's lot ; Africans in London ; The birth of Western racism ; The new feudal lords ; Squalls at sea ; The lure of the sea ; The fate of the soul -- The slave coast of Africa: a culture plundered. Invoking the ancestors ; "The Igbo make no kings" ; Njinga, the queen-king ; The nature of contact ; A cultural exchange, 1400-1700 ; The measure of bondage ; A life of exile ; Africa's loss -- The middle passage: "the galling of the chains." Let the trading begin ; Wood shelves and yams ; A stolen child ; "Last friend, death" ; The planter's son ; A floating hell ; The "good" captains ; The price of a dead slave ; State of grace -- The Americas: tales of resistance and survival. Equiano's burden ; Joseph Cinque and the case of the Amistad mutiny ; King sugar ; Indentured lives ; Migrations of the planter class ; The forbearance of women ; Color matters ; Kinship rituals ; Maroon culture ; Healing Africa's children ; The long voyage home ; Spirits in the water -- Afterword : The wreck of the Henrietta Marie / Madeleine Burnside.".
- catalog title "Spirits of the passage : the Transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century / text by Madeleine Burnside ; edited by Rosemarie Robotham ; foreword by Cornel West.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".