Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188) and index.
Lessons from the folklore of the Underground Railroad -- Igbo homeland and territory: the Aro factor -- The hinterland routes of Igbo slave journeys focusing on Arochukwu to Calabar and Bonny -- He-goat as a metaphor: material and verbal iconographies of pain -- Folklore in oral traditions of the Atlantic slave trade -- Social organization: major perpetrators and cohorts -- Repercussions: social and cultural impacts of the transatlantic slave trade -- Reparations: perceptions of Africans in the diaspora -- Reconnections: the Igbo village at Staunton, Virginia, as a contact zone for peoples of African descent -- Journeying back from freedom to freedom: to heal the wounds of slavery