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Title:'I want to follow Kwaku': the construction of self and home by unfree children in the Gold Coast, c. 1941
Author:Cammaert, Jessica V.
Year:2015
Periodical:The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537)
Volume:56
Issue:3
Pages:373-388
Language:English
Geographic terms:Ghana
Burkina Faso
Subjects:children
slaves
identity
External link:https://doi.org/10.1017/S002185371500050X
Abstract:Scholars of children and migration have recently turned their attention to how children mediate home and belonging, especially through contradictory or challenging circumstances. For unfree children in Africa, challenging circumstances of sale or debt-bondage pose particular difficulties. Despite what historians of slavery have noted of their adaptability for survival, questions remain about how the unfree child constructs self, home, and belonging when transferred over long distances, and when age and size precludes running away as a strategy for survival or return. This article focuses on the transcript involving the testimonies of three young, unfree girls transacted in 1930 and redeemed through a district court of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast in 1941. Though their testimonies are provided within the arena of a male, colonial district court, Atawa, Kibadu, and Abnofo reveal how their treatment, duration of bondage, and geographical and cultural distance shaped their constructions of self, home, and belonging. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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