Slavery and its Legacy in Ghana and the Diaspora

Rebecca Shumway is Assistant Professor of History at the College of Charleston, USA. She is the author of The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2011).Trevor R. Getz is Professor of History at San Francisco State University, USA. He is the author of Abina and the Important Men (2011), winner of the James Harvey Robinson Prize.

• Introduction Trevor Getz (San Francisco State University, USA) and Rebecca Shumway (College of Charleston, USA)The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery before Colonial Rule1. Ghana and the Transatlantic Slave Trade Rebecca Shumway (College of Charleston, USA)2. ‘Tied Up’: Slave Relics in Traditional Political Leadership in Burugu, Northern Ghana Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu (University of Ghana, Ghana)3. ‘Earth from a Dead Negro’s Grave’: Ritual Technologies and Mortuary Realms in the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast Diaspora Walter Rucker (Rutgers University, USA)4. Anti-Slavery on the Gold Coast Before 1874 Rebecca Shumway (College of Charleston, USA)Slavery and Abolition Under British Colonial Rule (1874-1957)5. The Claims Wives Made: Slavery and Marriage in the Late Nineteenth Century Gold Coast Colony and Protectorate Trevor R. Getz (San Francisco State University, USA)6. Signs of an African Emancipation?: Slavery and Emancipation in the Reports (1868-1908) of a Ghanaian Pastor, Kofi Theophilus Opoku Paul Jenkins (University of Basel, Switzerland) 7. An African Abolitionist on the Gold Coast: The Case of Francis P. Fearon Steffen Runkel (Leibniz University Hanover, Germany)Memory, Heritage and the Legacy of Slavery8. Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Shared History or Shared Heritage? Wilhelmina Donkoh (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana)9. The Legacy of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana Akosua Perbi (University of Ghana, Ghana)10. Charged Memories: African Slave Traders in Contemporary Ghanaian Political Discourse Bayo Holsey (Rutgers University, USA)Afterword Ray A. Kea (University of California, Riverside, USA)Select BibliographyIndex

Overall, several essays in this volume break new conceptual ground regarding resistance, abolitionism, and emancipation. Indubitably, these scholars engage with, and speak to, the fields of history, anthropology, material culture, heritage, tourism, and memory studies … In summary, this book represents an admirable contribution to the fields of Ghana Studies, slave trade and slavery, and Atlantic and African Studies.