'History Must be Rewritten!': Revisionist Ambitions among West African Slave Descendants

TY - CHAP

T1 - 'History Must be Rewritten!'

T2 - Revisionist Ambitions among West African Slave Descendants

AU - Pelckmans, Lotte

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - This chapter adresses the silence that characterizes African domestic slavery in West Africa. Whereas the transatlantic slave trade is remembered and commemorated, domestic slavery has long remained a taboo topic. The chapter sheds light on recent attemps by African people of slave origin to reconsider the contribution of slaves to the Construction of African former kingdoms and contemporary nation states. This implies a revision of both popular and official accoutns of African history in relation to slavery.

AB - This chapter adresses the silence that characterizes African domestic slavery in West Africa. Whereas the transatlantic slave trade is remembered and commemorated, domestic slavery has long remained a taboo topic. The chapter sheds light on recent attemps by African people of slave origin to reconsider the contribution of slaves to the Construction of African former kingdoms and contemporary nation states. This implies a revision of both popular and official accoutns of African history in relation to slavery.

KW - Memory

KW - Slavery

KW - Africa

KW - Mali

KW - Benin

KW - Commemoration

KW - Abolition

KW - Identity

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978 1 84893 225 8

SP - 91

EP - 104

BT - Slavery, Memory and Identity

PB - Pickering & Chatto Publishers

CY - London (UK), Vermont (USA)

ER -