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The Logbooks : Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Driftless Connecticut Series and Garnet BksPublisher: Middletown, CT. 06459 : Wesleyan University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780819573063
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The LogbooksDDC classification:
  • 306.3/6209746
LOC classification:
  • E445.C7 -- .F37 2014eb
Online resources:
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 -- FOUR: A HISTORY THAT DOESN'T "FIT" -- Back to Africa -- To Live in Peril on the Sea -- Not 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 -- Color photographs follow page.
Summary: Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting.
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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 -- FOUR: A HISTORY THAT DOESN'T "FIT" -- Back to Africa -- To Live in Peril on the Sea -- Not 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 -- Color photographs follow page.

Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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