Personal Reflections on
“The bloody Writing is for ever torn”: Domestic and International Consequences of the First Governmental Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade
August 8–12, 2007
Accra and Elmina, Ghana
Some of the pictures and texts that follow were sent to Uncommon Sense in response to a request from the editors to everyone who attended the conference for whom we have email addresses. And some of the material arrived at the Institute unsolicited soon after the meeting ended. Our thanks go to each of the twenty-six people who shared their impressions, memories, and perspectives with us. We hope that for those who were there, these words and images will be a reminder of a remarkable experience and that they will also give readers who could not be with us a sense of the people and the country that welcomed us so graciously.
Reflections by:
- Conference Attendees
- Ruth Drescher, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Suzan Eltis, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Michael Hittleman, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Martha J. McNamara, Wellesley College, MA, USA and Warren R. Hofstra, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, USA
- Jerry J. Robinson, Kent, Washington, USA
- Marty Ross, Kansas City, MO, and Gloucester, VA, USA
- Karin Wulf, Book Review Editor, WMQ, Williamsburg, VA, USA
- Program Scholars
- Anselme Guézo, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Republic, West Africa
- Aline Helg, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- David Northup, Boston College, Massachusetts, USA
- Warren Whatley, University of Michigan, USA
- Marcus Wood, University of Sussex, U.K.
- Cyriaque-Robert Yavoucko, University of Bangui, Central African Republic
- Travel Scholarship Recipients
- Ademakinwa Adebisi, University of Lagos, Nigeria
- Ronald Olufemi Badru, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- Matilda de Beer, University of the Free State, South Africa
- Simeon Gbor, Benue State University, Nigeria
- Henry Kam Kah, University of Buea, Cameroon
- Kamini Krishna, University of Zambia
- Canute A. Ngwa, University of Buea, Cameroon
- Olukoya Ogen, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria
- Terhemba O’Tserakaa, Benue State University, Nigeria
- Olusegun Temilola, Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria
- Joseph A. Ushie, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
- Josep Yves Zoa Zoa, Ngaoundéré University, Cameroon
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