An edition of A cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century (2011)

A cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

the Gold Coast in the age of trans-Atlantic slave trade : Book 1

by Ray A. Kea

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An edition of A cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century (2011)

A cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

the Gold Coast in the age of trans-Atlantic slave trade : Book 1

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Part One: Texts. Chapter 1: Hans Lykke of Osu. Hermeneutics. A death-wish. Writing Hans Lykke. History continues. Noete/Note Doku. Klama and Kpele hermeneutics. Dominion. The Akwamu factor. The lumo and the company. The lumo as ma?nyo. Akwamu politics. Rebellion. A counter-narrative. Rebellion. Life and death. The idea of Hans Lykke

Chapter 2. History, commerce, and texts. Texts and commerce. The ordering of things. Texts and Gold Coast history. Labor. Work as a condition of life. A mason's imagination. History as critique. The question of the present. Identifying the authors. An historical imagination. Imaginaries. The imaginative dimension in history. Counter-factual yearning

Part Two: Service. Chapter 3: The company's servant: Sodsha Duomoro. Social and trading capital. Biography and Atlantic slaving. A cognitive and social order. A politics of location. The son of a famous man. Household property. Working for the company. Cultural and symbolic capital. Values and meanings. The aesthetics and metaphysics of power. The cultural domain of Coutymer. The politics of property. A life in the eighteenth century

Part Three: Resistance. Chapter 4: Subalterns and social struggle. Rethinking what we know. "History to the defeated". Social transcripts. Places of sanctuary. Subalterns. "Plundering on the general road". Unmastered men. "His master should never get another day's work out of him". Social inversion. Liminality and history. Agency and the terrain of social struggle

Chapter 5: A rebel and an abolitionist. "Giving import to lives on the margins". Atlantic slaving and historical agency. Kwasi the blacksmith and rebel. Mutiny in Christiansborg castle. Plotting rebellion on St. Croix. A life of defeat. ''Life is fury''. Life in Edwumako-Asene. Enslavement. Confronting history in the idea of abolition. The modernity of the unimaginable.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in: Lewiston, New York
Other Titles: Gold Coast in the age of trans-Atlantic slave trade

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Dewey Decimal Class: 966.7/01
Library of Congress: DT511 .K37 2011, DT511 .K37 2012

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Pagination: p. cm.
Number of pages: 686

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Open Library: OL24906608M
ISBN 10: 0773439102
ISBN 13: 9780773439108
LCCN: 2011025530

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A cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century

the Gold Coast in the age of trans-Atlantic slave trade : Book 1

by Ray A. Kea