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Preservation of the slave sites on West Africa’s coast
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Preservation of the slave sites on West Africa’s coast
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an analysis of how the atrocities of the trans-Atlantic slave trade are remembered
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Johnson
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Stephanie A.
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1985-
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Stephanie Johnson
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Woodhouse-Beyer
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Katharine
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Katharine Woodhouse-Beyer
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St. Clair Harvey
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Archer St. Clair Harvey
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Kahlaoui
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Tarek
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Tarek Kahlaoui
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2012
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2012-05
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2012
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This thesis will explore the history and cultural heritage of the structures and sites along the West African coast, occupied by Europeans during the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. It may appear overly ambitious to study the entire West African coast, but this will present a brief history of the development of the site, their structures and the slave trade. I will focus on efforts made by international organizations and African nations to preserve the structures as well as their efforts to create memorial museums. This research is based upon secondary research, such as scholarly books, articles, reports by archaeologists who have worked on the sites, and data collected from organizations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). These structures and sites are material evidence of the slave trade and the early African-European encounter. Using four sites as case studies: Bunce Island, Sierra Leone; Savi, Benin; Goree Island, Senegal; and St. George Elmina, Ghana, I will discuss the existing practice of preserving the sites as memorial museums. The preservation of these sites are increasingly necessary due to the influx of tourists of African descent travel to West Africa in an attempt to find their “roots.” Some sites have received more attention and visitation than others. Slavery and the slave trade dominate the narratives of the sites, which raise questions of authenticity because most of the information is provided through oral tradition. Adequate historical and archaeological research in the area of the sites must be made to prove their legitimacy as slave structures.
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Art History
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vii, 54 p. : ill., maps
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Stephanie A. Johnson
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Slave trade--Africa, West--History
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Historic sites--Conservation and restoration--Africa, West
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doi:10.7282/T3ZG6R57
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ETD graduate
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Johnson
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Stephanie
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2012-04-16 15:16:52
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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