The Logbooks Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory.
Title:
The Logbooks Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory.
Author:
Farrow, Anne.
ISBN:
9780819573063
9780819573056
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 p.)
Series:
The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books
The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books.
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
Cover; The Logbooks; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; ONE: RECOVERING THE STORY; Cleared for Africa; Shadows on the Wall; Creating a Record; "How Did You Find Me?"; TWO: THE HAUNTED LAND; Meeting the Slave Traders; Another Century, Not My Own; The Past in Dreams; History for an Abandoned Place; The Screaming Man; The Story of a Stone; The Slaughterhouse; THREE: TROUBLE IN MIND; A Book with Many Bookmarks; A Platform for Memory; The Pain That Survives; The Fragile Power; History That Won't End ; Color photographs follow page ; FOUR: A HISTORY THAT DOESN'T "FIT"; Back to Africa
To Live in Peril on the SeaNot a Word but a World; The Slave Trade's Men in Full; FIVE: SEPARATIONS; A Visit to Madina; This Far, and No Further; Legacy; Lost and Found; Our Choice Is the Truth or Nothing; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Reading Guide
Abstract:
Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting.
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Electronic Access:
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