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

By: Farrow, AnneMaterial type: TextTextSeries: The Driftless Connecticut SerPublisher: Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780819573063Subject(s): Bunce Island (Sierra Leone) -- History | Collective memory -- New England | Saltonstall, Dudley, -- 1738-1796 | Slave trade -- Connecticut -- History | Slavery -- ConnecticutGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Logbooks : Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human MemoryDDC classification: 306.3/6209746 LOC classification: E445.C7 -- .F37 2014ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- 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 -- About the Author -- Garnet Books -- About the Driftless Connecticut Series.
Summary: Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting.
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Cover -- Title Page -- 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 -- About the Author -- Garnet Books -- About the Driftless Connecticut Series.

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, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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