Routes of Remembrance
Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Note on Akan Orthography
Introduction
Part 1 Sequestering the Slave Trade
1 Of Origins: Making Family, Ethnicity, Nation
2 Conundrums of Kinship: Sequestering Slavery, Recalling Kin
3 Displacing the Past: Imagined Geographies of Enslavement
4 In Place of Slavery: Fashioning Coastal Identity
5 E-Race-ing History: Schooling and National Identity
Part 2 Centering the Slave Trade
6 Slavery and the Making of Black Atlantic History
7 Navigating New Histories
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
“Routes of Remembrance sets a new benchmark for studies of the slave trade in African and African-American memory. In an insightful ethnography of a major site of diaspora tourism, Holsey reveals the complexity of Ghanaian silences concerning the slave trade, ‘routes’ these through a contested history of European and African-American narratives, and presents a fascinating account of how a new generation reworks this history to create a new diasporic vision.”
“I thoroughly enjoyed reading this fascinating book. Indeed, it is rare to find such a sensitive account of how people deal with painful memories of the past and the complex social forces that dictate the shape and form that those memories of the past take.”
Royal Anthropological Institute: Amaury Talbot Prize
Won
Association of Third World Studies: Toyin Falola Africa Book Award
Won
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
History: African History
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