Abina and the Important Men Abina and the Important Men: a Graphical History was written by Trevor R. Getz and Liz Clarke. The story of Abina Mansah is somewhat an inspiring graphical history based on an 1876 court transcript. Abina‚ a woman of West Africa‚ was wrongfully enslaved and as a consequence‚ she took her former master‚ Quamina Eddoo‚ to court. The overall setting took place on the Gold Coast during the 19th century. The main scenes take place in the court room‚ which is filled with many
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Prof. Mr. Adam C. Hill‚ MA‚ ABD Date: 10/23/14 Class: History/Social Sciences 100-D Abina and the Important Men This book tells about a young West African woman prosecuted his second master to enslave her in 1876. Abina Mansah was a West African woman living in the British Gold Coast Colony. She cannot tolerate her master enslave her because it is in contravention of the "Gold Coast Slave-dealing Abolition Ordinance‚ 1874". So she escaping to the town of Cape Coast‚ she accuses Quamina Eddoo
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Book Review: Abina and the Important Men Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History by historian Trevor R. Getz and illustrator Liz Clarke is a unique combination of educational storytelling and historical facts. Presented in an unconventional historical graphic "novel” formal‚ Abina and the Important Men is a fascinating multipart text containing a pictorial translation of an engrossing historical account‚ the primary transcript of that account‚ and various textbook-like supplements for understanding
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Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History This graphic novel was a very interesting and unique take on history and on how it’s traditionally told. The story is based on a young African slave girl‚ named Abina Mansah‚ in the nineteenth century. Most of the events that occur in the book take place in West Africa and more specifically in the Gold Coast Colony. It’s based on the real-life event of Abina’s trial against Quamina Eddo‚ who was a powerful and wealthy man. She believed that she was
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world more than enough times to count. It has impacted many people along the way and has made peoples’ lives for the worst. Although not everyone experiences it‚ those who have are silences and are unheard of. In the graphic history book Abina and the Important Men‚ it demonstrates the story of a women of color and the court case she went through with her former slave owner. It shows how people forms different ideas and the consequences it brings to certain people. During this historical time‚ Britain
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Abina and the Important Men is a powerful graphic book that follows the trial of Abina Mansah in 1876. Abina is originally from Asante which is now today Ghana. She is sold into slavery even though slavery has been outlawed by the British. Abina is sold to a man named Quamina Eddoo in Saltpond by her current Master who she thinks she is supposed to marry. She escapes from Eddoo in the middle of the night and goes to a town called Cape Coast where she heard that all people were free. When she gets
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Abina and the Important Men: A Graphic History by historian Trevor R. Getz and illustrator Liz Clarke is a unique combination of educational storytelling and historical facts. Presented in an unconventional historical graphic "novel” formal‚ Abina and the Important Men is a fascinating multipart text containing a pictorial translation of an engrossing historical account‚ the primary transcript of that account‚ and various textbook-like supplements for understanding the history behind a long forgotten
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Liz Clarke had a unique way of giving an educational storytelling and a historical research of Abina and the Important Men. These authors give Abina a voice throughout the entire book. Getz and Clarke had ways of breaking down the life of Abina into a pictorial translation‚ a transcript of her trial‚ and many more documents that make it easier to comprehend and teach the history behind the story. Abina Mansah was a young‚ enslaved woman who was wrongfully enslaved and escaped to a British controlled
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In the making of Abina and the Important Men‚ the graphic novel’s author Getz and Clarke‚ make it abundantly clear that through the making of this work his only aim is to present the history and all the history‚ from all points of view and in it’s rawest form. While this is quite hard to do due to cultural and “temple” mentality‚ through the use of innovative methods‚ diverse inspection of peoples and moral views of history he attempts his best at retelling Abina’s story. While it is quite hard
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Abina and the important men written by Trevor R. Getz and drawn by Liz Clarke is a graphic novel. This graphic novel describes the court case of Abina an African women who was wrongfully sold into slavery. Abina was born in Asante where she lived as a slave from birth. Abina was sold by her former master Yaw Awoah to Quamina Eddoo an influential palm oil planter. Abina didn’t know that she was sold as a slave but she quickly came to the conclusion that she was a slave based on how she was treated
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