Memories of Madagascar and slavery in the Black Atlantic /
From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar's people were brought to American ports as slaves. In Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic, Wendy Wilson-Fall shows that the descendants of these Malagasy slaves in the United States maintained an ethn...
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Format: | Livre |
Langue: | English |
Publié: | Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015] ©2015. |
Collection: | Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ;
no. 14. |
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: a particular ancestral place
- Madagascar
- Shipmates
- History and narrative: saltwater slaves in Virginia
- After the American Revolution: undocumented arrivals
- Free, undocumented immigrants
- The problem of the metanarrative
- Appendix: Jeremiah Mahammitt's Malagasy words.