Identity, Spirit and Freedom in the Atlantic World: The Gold Coast and the African Diaspora

ISBN-13: 9780367786038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Robert Hanserd

Opis

This book applies oral, archival and other interdisciplinary evidence from West Africa and the Americas to analyses of new world Maroons, slaves and free blacks, examining a "Gold Coast" entrepot of Akan, Ga, Guan, and other peoples in an Atlantic era of non-linear, mutable intersection of contested history and culture.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Wayward, haughty with spotted skin and disheveled hair: the life and history of Okomfo Anokye: c.1635-1720  3. A blockade from bullets: 1658-1681  4. The enshrinements of the Asante Sika Dwa (The Golden Stool) in 1701 and the Akyem Abuakwa Ofori stool at Akuapem 1733  5. Flaming projectiles: flash of spirit, Jamaica 1685-1739  6. "Tacky's" rebels and the Second Maroon War 1795-1796  7. The 1712 rebellion: "One Conspirator was Pregnant, Her Execution ‘Suspended’ Until the Child was born"  8. Doctor Harry and the Kromanti Fly Boys 1741 and a place to remember ancestors: 1741-1795  9. Conclusion 

O autorze

Robert Hanserd is an Assistant Professor of Atlantic and African History at Columbia College, Chicago, USA.