Sean Kelley and Paul Lovejoy, editors
This collection presents surviving life stories of individuals from West Africa during the era of slavery as recorded in primary sources. The texts and testimonies are transcribed from original documentation with minimum or no editing but with a brief introduction to establish context. The collection is intended to provide a research and teaching resource that draws on the voices of people who experienced slavery. These sources can be used to reconstruct the period of the slave trade through the memories of individuals whose ties with their homelands were broken but whose memories continued.
Abali
Abarsi (Aitkin,Andrew)
Abd ul Kadir
Abd Ul Lahi (Cocker,Solomon)
Abdalliah Serif- Baba
Absolom,Benjamin
Abutso (Second,John)
Adamu (Klein,Edward)
Adibe (Rose,George)
Adsi (Man,John)
Adsima (Wilhelm,John)
Adsoro
Agbodo (Cole,George)
Agmoi,Fo
Aigbaha (Chapman,Sam)
Ako (Hall,George).
Akowrlo (Wilhelm,George)
Albarka
Ali (Twin,Moses)
Ambre,Stephen
Anchico,Sebastian
Aneke (O'Connor,Thomas)
Aneyoage (Macauly,Zacharias)
Anon Jamaican
Asu (Harry,Thomas)
Atigozi (James,Richard)
Atim,Adsumano
Atumei (Davis,Thomas)
Ayuba Job of Boonda
Ba, Fo
Baba
Bahoo (Amistad)
Belinda
Boyrereau,Brinch
Brockden,Madgdalene and Brownfield Catherine
Brooke (Book of Pirates)
Caesar
Carr,Will Popo
Christian,Francke
Christian,Jacob
Cinque (Amistad)
Clara
Coffee,George
Cudjoe
Cudjoe Arminian
Cupidon,John
Dale,George
Edwards,Washington
Fuller,Thomas
Gardner,Flora
Gottfried,Christian
Hadden,Thomas
Hall,Florence
Heroic Negro
Honest,Josiah
Jaded,Amoso
Joiner,Thomas
Katsina,Abubakar
Kimbo (Amistad)
Kuku,Aaron
Longstreth,Peter
Magu (Hambleton,William)
Maquama
Mohammadu,Sisei
Muhammedanism,Tracy
Nancy
Philips,Charles
Pontes,Brant
Primus
Quabino
Rahahman,Abduhl
Rickett,Andrew
Sambo, Abraham
Singweh
Slamank Adam
Smart,Gumbu
Smith,Charlie
Smith,Joseph
Spear,Chloe
Tamata,Pierre
Thompson,Flora
Thompson,Ned
Tom
Uncle Jack
Unnamed Angolan
Unnamed Muslim Man
Unnamed Man Pika
Wager, Apongo
Whipple,Prince
Will,Jospeh
Wilson,Peter
Wooma,Andrew