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Horrid Journeying: Narratives of Enslavement and the Global African Diaspora
- Journal of World History
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 19, Number 4, December 2008
- pp. 431-464
- 10.1353/jwh.0.0027
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Since its inception as a concept in the late 1960s, the African diaspora has channeled scholarly interest primarily toward African migrations beyond sub-Saharan Africa. This article outlines a method for the study of African diasporas within sub-Saharan Africa through a focus on consciousness of placement and displacement as emerging in African narratives of enslavement. The consciousness of original placement and of estrangement from home spun by African captives within sub-Saharan Africa challenges scholars of the African diaspora to position the African continent at the center of a global dispersion, as both a source of captives and a location of exile.