The Voice of Hope or Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World 1400 1800

The Voice of Hope

Author: Aung San Suu Kyi

"The dialogues [in The Voice of Hope] express Aung San Suu Kyi's humor, erudition, wisdom and accessibility, and demonstrate why she has become a world spiritual leader."-The New York Times Book Review

"Reading this book, one can well understand why [Aung San Suu Kyi] has been compared to such heroes of freedom as Nelson Mandela and Vclav Havel."-San Francisco Chronicle

Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize Laureate, mother of two, and devout Buddhist, is one of the most inspiring examples of spiritually infused politics and fearless leadership that the world has ever seen. Daughter of the martyred Burmese national hero who negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in the 1940s, Aung San Suu Kyi was called upon to lead the pro-democracy movement in Burma in 1988. The movement was quickly and brutally crushed by the military junta, and Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest.

The Voice of Hope is a rare and intimate journey to the heart of her struggle. Over a period of nine months, Alan Clements, the first American ordained as a Buddhist monk in Burma, met with Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her release from her first house arrest in July 1995. With her trademark ability to speak directly and compellingly, she presents here her vision of engaged compassion and describes how she has managed to sustain her hope and optimism.

Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of the National League for Democracy, which achieved a decisive victory in the last Burmese national election, held in 1990. The junta has refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of that vote. She has lived under house arrest for twelve of thelast eighteen years.

Alan Clements is the author of Burma: The Next Killing Fields? and Burma's Revolution of the Spirit. Since completion of The Voice of Hope, he has been permanently blacklisted in Burma.

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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800

Author: John Thornton

This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. He explains why African slaves were placed in significant roles. Estate structure and demography affected the capacity of slaves to form a self-sustaining society and behave as cultural actors. This second edition contains a new chapter on eighteenth century developments.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the second edition
	Abbreviations
	Maps
	Source notes for Maps 1-3
	Introduction	1
1	The birth of an Atlantic world	13
2	The development of commerce between Europeans and Africans	43
3	Slavery and African social structure	72
4	The process of enslavement and the slave trade	98
5	Africans in colonial Atlantic societies	129
6	Africans and Afro-Americans in the Atlantic world: life and labor	152
7	African cultural groups in the Atlantic world	183
8	Transformations of African culture in the Atlantic world	206
9	African religions and Christianity in the Atlantic world	235
10	Resistance, runaways, and rebels	272
11	Africans in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world	304
	Index	335