Atlantic World (Temporal Keyword)
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The Gambia River was an active site of the Atlantic slave trade and British efforts to legitimize trade in the 19th century. African peoples were brought from the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone as part of different commercial and colonial ventures while others were sent to the Americas as enslaved. Geographically part of the African Diaspora as both a site of departure and settlement, this paper explores African populations resettled along the river as slaves and liberated Africans in the 18th and...
In the Shadow of Roots: History, Memory and Archaeology in The Gambia (2013)
The legacy of Roots on Gambia is the alteration of memory and history. Haley’s tale and seemingly academic use of documentary and oral histories lent credibility to his story, resulting in the novel replacing previous collective memory of Juffure’s founding and its Atlantic past. As a result of the rise in African Diaspora tourism in Gambia following the novel’s publication, a national identity emerged dependent on the persona of Kunta Kinte and victimization through the slave trade. This is...