Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic. Wendy Wilson-Fall

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      Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic

       Ohio University Research in International Studies

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       Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic

      Wendy Wilson-Fall

       Foreword by Michael A. Gomez

      Ohio University Research in International Studies

      Global and Comparative Studies Series No. 14

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      Wilson-Fall, Wendy, author.

      Memories of Madagascar and slavery in the Black Atlantic / Wendy Wilson-Fall ; foreword by Michael A. Gomez.

      pages cm. — (Ohio University research in international studies, global and comparative studies series ; No. 14)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-8214-2192-5 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-2193-2 (pb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-4546-4 (pdf)

      1. Slavery—United States—History. 2. Slavery—Madagascar—History. 3. Slave trade—United States—History. 4. Slave trade—Madagascar—History. 5. United States—Relations—Madagascar. 6. Madagascar—Relations—United States. 7. African diasphora. I. Title.

      E446.W69 2015

      306.3'6209691—dc23

      2015030042

       Contents

       List of Illustrations

      Foreword by Michael A. Gomez

       Acknowledgments

       INTRODUCTION. A Particular Ancestral Place

       CHAPTER ONE. Madagascar

       CHAPTER TWO. Shipmates

       CHAPTER THREE. History and Narrative: Saltwater Slaves in Virginia

       CHAPTER FOUR. After the American Revolution: Undocumented Arrivals

       CHAPTER FIVE. Free, Undocumented Immigrants

       CHAPTER SIX. The Problem of the Metanarrative

       APPENDIX. Jeremiah Mahammitt’s Malagasy Words

       Glossary

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Illustrations

       Maps

       1.1. Madagascar

       3.1. Plantations on the Rappahannock River

       3.2. Plantations on the York and James Rivers

       Foreword

      To name a thing is a powerful act, with implications and consequences far reaching in nature, conveying for the named both meaning and purpose. Insofar as it concerns the human condition, it is a transformative event, by which the unknown travels a circuit of discovery, of intelligibility. But such a process also constitutes a beginning, at times in a literal sense, while always in a cognitive one. To name a thing is equally transactional, conveying import for both the one who names and the one who is named. To the degree that the name endures, the former achieves recognition as progenitor, a causal source in at least some sense, while the latter is given visibility. To these aspects of naming must be added its spatial quality, locating the one naming and СКАЧАТЬ