CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Anyim, Daniel |
|---|---|
| Title | "We Sold Slaves Too": The Disappearance of Anomabo and Fort William in Public Narratives Surrounding the Atlantic Slave Trade |
| Summary | The history of the Atlantic slave trade and slave heritage are critical subject areas of transnational concern and thematic research. In this study, the necessary details that contribute to local indifference and general disinterest among the public about salient issues concerning indigenous slavery systems—that existed before the arrival of the Europeans—and the transatlantic slave trade at large are untangled. That is, a structured dissemination of partial evidence that was perpetrated and to some extent centrally designed by key actors including: the state, local historians and educational institutions as part of concerted attempts to entrench overarching notions of national cohesion and unity in the face of (re)imagining the Ghana’s colonial past. I contend that what this topic lack is ample/fair representation in the Ghana Education Service’s current teaching curriculum for history in senior high schools. Thus, a continuous minimization or outright silencing of the role played by local agency prevents students from developing nuanced insights into a lived past within Ghana’s national consciousness, in the contemporary imagination and interrogation of the manifold of events that transpired in Atlantic slave trade. Historically relevant sites like Fort William, Anomabo—this thesis’s case study—was explored and can serve as an entry point into this complex history. This study also discovered that, the well-rounded histories of this era filter down to the ‘official’ narratives shared by tour guides to tourists esp. from the African Diaspora who embark on regular heritage tours to the various forts and castles in Ghana. |
| Supervisor | Alice Choyke |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/anyim_daniel.pdf |
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