Agotime: her legend

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This is the story of Agõtĩme, a Dahomean queen, who became part of the exodus of slaves from West Africa to Brazil. She is a historical figure, a legend, as well as this book's main character.

Part I recounts the real country of Dahomey (modern-day Benin)--the intertwined royal heritage, religious cult of Water Spirit vodũ, and divination system of Fa/5. The story of 19th-century West African Agotime, the daughter of a Mall priest, captured by the King of Dahomey and made one of his queens.

Their son is chosen by the oracles as successor, but upon the king's death he flees into the jungle and Agotime is sold into slavery. The odyssey of Agotime transcends and eclipses the sinister motive for her voyage, as cargo in the sordid slave trade.

An entirely alternate and vigorous point of view from history which is rendered with artistry - I highly recommend this book and thank the owner of a copy for having graciously loaned it out.5/5(4). Genre/Form: Novels History Historical fiction Fiction: Additional Physical Format: Online version: Gleason, Judith Illsley.

Agotime: her legend. New York, Grossman, ISBN: OCLC Number: Notes: Viking Compass edition. Description: x, pages illustrations, maps 20 cm: Responsibility. Books By Judith Illsley Gleason All A Recitation of Ifa, Oracle of the Yoruba by Judith Illsley Gleason () Jan 1, Agotime: her legend by Judith Illsley Gleason () Jan 1, Hardcover.

$1, $ Only 1 left in stock - order soon. On it, the village of Abomey, where our last book Agotime: Her Legend is partially set. The continent of Africa, though, is jumping ahead of the story, which begins in southern Spain.

The continent of Africa, though, is jumping ahead of the story, which begins in southern Spain. Buy Agotime: her legend by Judith Gleason (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.5/5(1). See Judith Gleason, Agõtime: Her Legend (New York: Viking Compass Books, ), Pierre Verger, Os libertos: sete caminhos na liberdade de escravos da Cited by: Carybé - Murals at Miami International Airport.

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AGOTIME. Her Legend. Judith Gleason. (Grossman. $) An early 19th‐century West African Queen Mother sold into slavery and trans ported to Brazil. A valuable. I'm thinking of Harold Courlander's The African and Judith Gleason's Agotime, her legend, though that remarkable book is really about religious experience, and only indirectly about the slave trade.

Caryl Phillips, whom Prof. Austen mentions, was born in St. Kitts and grew up in England. Florinda la Cava, or simply La Cava, is a character who, according to legend, played a central role in the downfall of the Visigothic kingdom in Spain in Although she was treated as historical in Spain for centuries, there is no evidence for her existence whatsoever and her name is certainly a later concoction.

Judith I. Gleason is the author of Oya ( avg rating, 37 ratings, 0 reviews, published ), Agõtĩme ( avg rating, 12 ratings, 3 reviews, publish /5. Agotime: her legend. Jan ; J Gleason; Gleason, J.Agotime: her legend, New York, Grossman.

This book will be of critical importance not only to those concerned with African. Agotime‐Her Legend, by Judith Gleason, drawings by Carybé (Grossman Publishers, $). The enslavement of a Dahomey queen and her journey to Brazil.

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Agõtĩme is a novel based on the life of an actual woman who was sold into slavery. The book follows her life from Dahomey in West Africa to Brazil.

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She details her living conditions, her family, and the trials of her life that began at the age of nine. Gleason, Judith Illsley, Agotime, her legend.

Grossman, NY A wonderful, mystical book about a Dahomean queen sent to slavery in Brazil. But more about Vodu religion than about the slave trade. Unfortunately out of print. Hugo, Victor The Slave King (novel) Jacobs, Rayda, The Slave Book, A Novel, Kwela Books.

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I work as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University (ORCID ID:   Gleason, Judith: Agotime. Her Legend. The ships also brought across the Atlantic the cults, the voodoo and the multifarious gods of West Africa.