![]() ![]() ![]() There are questions that need to be asked and he sums up the challenge he and Clarke faced: ![]() Following the transcript Getz points out that he and Clarke have created an historicization or historical narrative placed in the context of the time and place in which it is set. The book could have stood with just the graphic history and the actual transcript but it goes much farther and in a direction that will have me returning to it later. Look at the cover (right), Abina standing defiant with the "important men" (Melton, Eddoo, defense attorney, advisors called by Melton) with their backs to her. Clarke (the illustrator) brought the story to life with her well researched and striking illustrations. Supplementing the trial transcript, Getz (the author) constructed a plausible background for Abina as well as the events that gave her freedom and demand for justice. The collaborator's took the transcript of that trial and created a compelling graphic history of Abina's story. Abina is in no danger of being returned to slavery but pursues the case because she wants to be heard. Britain outlawed slavery in the Empire in 1833 and an act of enslavement is in contravention of the "Gold Coast Slave-dealing Abolition Ordinance, 1874" so judicial assessor William Melton feels it his duty to take the case to trial. After escaping to the town of Cape Coast, she accuses Quamina Eddoo of purchasing and holding her as a slave. Abina Mansah is a young West African woman living in the British Gold Coast Colony (now Ghana) in 1876. ![]()
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