Detailed view: Harriet Tubman Institute and Resource Centre on the African Diaspora
Title:	Harriet Tubman Institute and Resource Centre on the African Diaspora
URL:	http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/
Creator:	York University <North York, Ontario>
Abstract:	The link leads you to two dieffrent homepages: the Harriet Tubman Institute and the Resource Centre on the African Diaspora. You can find information on projects, research and publications. There are many full text documents, too (see http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/seminars/seminar.htm). [editors ilissAfrica]
Table of contents:	Full text documents - examples: Publications * Publications of Graduate Students and Former Graduate Students ---"`A Smattering of Education' and Petitions as Sources: A Study of African Slave Holders' Response to Abolition in the Gold Coast," ---"Culture, Kinship and Power: The Evolution of Royal Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Kano," * Conference and Seminar Papers ---" 'Death is Preferable to Ignominy': Politically Motivated Suicide, Social Honour and Chieftaincy Politics in Early Colonial Ibadan" ---Yoruba Credit and Debt Mechanisms Adjusted, c.1850-1900 ---"Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African" ---"Public monuments and private memories: the slave route in Ouidah" ---"Ransoming in 19th Century West Africa" ---"Benguela: An Atlantic Port of the Slave Trade" ---"A Study of the Influence of slaves in tax gathering in Kano Emirate" ---“The Day of Jubilee is Come”: Isaac Anderson and Rebellion in Sierra Leone ---“Experiences of Enslavement in West-Central Africa” ---“Ribats and the Development of Plantations in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Case Study of Fanisau” ---“Norms of Enslavement in the Western Soudan 1890-1910” ---“Usurping Freedom: Processes of Enslavement in Benguela and its Hinterland, 1780-1850” ---“Ethnic Identity and Nineteenth-Century Yoruba Warfare” ---"From Slavery to Free Labour in West Africa, c.1800- c.1950: Reflections from Asante (Ghana)"
Keywords:	Africa South of the Sahara; diaspora; colonial history; slave trade; slavery
Countries:	Africa. General Resources
Subject areas:	Politics » Human Rights & Law; History & Geography » Generalities
Resource type:	Research facilities; Other Collections of Fulltexts and Sources
Language:	English
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