123rd Annual Meeting (January 2 - 5, 2009): Discussing History and Representation: Remembering and Reconstructing the Experiences of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 1: Challenging “Traditional” Visions of Slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean

Discussing History and Representation: Remembering and Reconstructing the Experiences of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Part 1: Challenging “Traditional” Visions of Slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean

AHA Session 28

Friday, January 2, 2009: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM

Regent Parlor (Hilton New York)

Chair:

John K. Thornton, Boston University

Papers:

Slaves and Slavery, a Disturbing Object for French Social Sciences in Colonial West Africa
Marie-Albane de Suremain, Université de Paris VII

Diasporan Memories of the Africa Past: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, and Ignatius Sancho as Sources of African History
Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University

True Colours of “Slavers”: The Reality of the Slave Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Western Part of the Indian Ocean
Hideaki Suzuki, University of Tokyo

Comment:

Edward A. Alpers, University of California at Los Angeles

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