PDF-(BOOK)-Routes of Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana

Over the past fifteen years visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana Why do Ghanaians suppress the history of enslavement And why is this history expressed so differently on the other side of the AtlanticRoutes of Remembrance tackles these questions by analyzing the slave trades absence from public versions of coastal Ghanaian family and community histories its troubled presentation in the countrys classrooms and nationalist narratives and its elaboration by the transnational tourism industry Bayo Holsey discovers that in the past African involvement in the slave trade was used by Europeans to denigrate local residents and this stigma continues to shape the way Ghanaians imagine their historical past Today however due to international attention and the curiosity of young Ghanaians the slave trade has at last entered the public sphere transforming it from a stigmatizing history to one that holds the potential to contest global inequalitiesHolseys study will be crucial to anyone involved in the global debate over how the slave trade endures in history and in memory. (Continued). 03/10/13. Islamic Slave Trade? A misnomer?. If transatlantic trade has not been called “Christian slave trade”, then it would be more appropriate to use . Arab/. P. ersian slave trade . Credit given to: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston . Publishing for portions of this presentation. Reading Focus. Where did the Atlantic slave trade originate?. How did slavery evolve in the American colonies?. Resistance--. There were many people that fought against the capture and transportation of slaves from West Africa. . They fought in Africa- different leaders and groups resisting capture. There . were communities of escaped slaves, like the . LO – TSWBAT explain the reasons for the development of the transatlantic slave trade and the spread of slavery in North America. . DOL - Given a population graph for the Chesapeake, TLW write a paragraph explaining two reasons for the development of the transatlantic slave trade and one reason for the growth of slavery in the late 17. The Beginning. Factories:. Established trading forts allowing trade from the interior. Much is established with the consent of the African people.. El Mina. Missionary efforts. Europeans saw the Africans as pagan savages (just like the saw everyone else). Unit 5: The Economy of Resources. What do you think? . What is . Slavery?. Slavery is when a person owns or has complete control of another person or people.. The . African Slave . Trade was . a. mass involuntary migration . Tuesday, January 22nd. Take out your ISN to page 83 and answer the question in Preview 13. Tuesday, January 22nd. Journal #21. In your journal answer the following:. You are a trader heading into West Africa in about 1000. The caravan carries many goods, but the most precious is salt. Salt is so valuable that people trade gold for it! The gold traders never meet you face to face, though. You wish you cold talk to them to find out where they get their gold. Why do you think the traders are so secretive?. By: Meghan Murphy. 5-U2.2.1 Describe Triangular Trade including. -the trade routes. -the people and goods that were traded. -the Middle Passage. -its impact on life in Africa . (National Geography Standards 9, and 11;pp. 160 and 164 E). Slave Trade. The idea of making someone less wealthy or less fortunate a bound servant is not new, but the degree to which the institution of slavery chained Africans was incomparable in world history. LO – TSWBAT explain the reasons for the development of the transatlantic slave trade and the spread of slavery in North America. . DOL - Given a population graph for the Chesapeake, TLW write a paragraph explaining two reasons for the development of the transatlantic slave trade and one reason for the growth of slavery in the late 17. Many kingdoms. Diff. cultures. 100 mil.. SLAVERY?. Sources? . Status? . trade. ???. Demand . Race . Slave trade. 1450-1850: 12 . mil.. Brazil. : . 42%. MAP 4.3 . Triangular Trade Across the Atlantic . Learning objective . – to . understand how the slave trade worked and its key components.. I can . describe. the key . features of th. e slave trade. .. Level 4. I can . e. xplain . the key . features of the slave trade and how they worked.. Last Frontier. Umoja. /Unity . The Fisherman Series. Fort Amsterdam at . Abanzie. Mame. . Jato. . Slave Cave. Northern Ghana. Slave Defense Wall. Northern Ghana. Urban Ceremonial Mask Series. Kwame Nkrumah Series. SILK ROAD. TRANS-SAHARAN. INDIAN OCEAN. I GOT THE HORSES IN THE BACK... AND SOME SADDLES & STIRRUPS TOO. the exchange of people, technology, religious and cultural beliefs, food crops, domesticated animals, and disease pathogens developed across far-flung networks of communication and exchange..