Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword Beyond the Printed Word
- Introduction Finding the African Voice
- Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
- Part Three Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
- Part Four Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- 29 Introduction:
- 30 The Expulsion of Dalu ModuA Muslim Trader in Anti-Slavery Freetown
- 31 “Being a Slave, I Was Afraid...”
- 32 Interpreting Gold Coast Supreme Court Records, SCT 5/4/19 Regina (Queen) vs. Quamina Eddoo
- 33 A Tale of Slavery and Beyond in a British Colonial Court Record
- 34 Aballow’s Story
- 35 A Case of Kidnapping and Child Trafficking in Senegal, 1916
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
33 - A Tale of Slavery and Beyond in a British Colonial Court Record
West Africa and Brazil
from Part Six - Legal Records
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
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Book contents
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Foreword Beyond the Printed Word
- Introduction Finding the African Voice
- Part One Remembering Slavery and the Slave Trade
- Part Two The Verbal Arts and Everyday Objects
- Part Three Documenting Our Own Histories and Cultural Practices
- Part Four Slavery Observed: European Travelers’ Accounts
- Part Five Administrative Records
- Part Six Legal Records
- 29 Introduction:
- 30 The Expulsion of Dalu ModuA Muslim Trader in Anti-Slavery Freetown
- 31 “Being a Slave, I Was Afraid...”
- 32 Interpreting Gold Coast Supreme Court Records, SCT 5/4/19 Regina (Queen) vs. Quamina Eddoo
- 33 A Tale of Slavery and Beyond in a British Colonial Court Record
- 34 Aballow’s Story
- 35 A Case of Kidnapping and Child Trafficking in Senegal, 1916
- Part Seven Recorded Encounters with the Enslaved: Christian Workers in Africa
- Part Eight Documents from Muslim Africa
- Part Nine Living with the Past
- Index
Summary
The town of Lagos on the West African coast, located in what is today southwestern Nigeria, developed into a major port in the Atlantic slave trade only at the end of the eighteenth century, late in the history of the ignoble commerce. About 60 percent of the approximately 540,000 slaves shipped from the Bight of Benin between 1801 and 1867 were taken to northeastern Brazil. A succession of slave rebellions in Bahia, in northeastern Brazil, that culminated in the Malê uprising of 1835 led slaveholders and government officials there to fear freed blacks, whom they believed had conspired with slaves in the revolt. Despite the interpretive challenges with which British colonial court records present historians, they constitute one of the few sources for Lagos and other British settlements where stories told by persons of slave origin about their lives are documented in significant numbers.
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- African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade , pp. 378 - 386Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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