Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic : Ohio University Press : 9780821421925 : 0821421921 : 21 Oct 2015 : From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar&;s people were brought to American ports as slaves. In Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic, Wendy Wilson-Fall shows that the descendants of these Malagasy slaves in the United States maintained an ethnic identity in ways that those from the areas more commonly feeding the Atlantic slave trade did not. Generations later, hundreds, if not thousands, of African Americans maintain strong identities as Malagasy descendants, yet the histories of Malagasy slaves, sailors, and their descendants have been little explored. Wilson-Fall examines how and why the stories that underlie this identity have been handed down through families&;and what this says about broader issues of ethnicity and meaning-making for those whose family origins, if documented at all, have been willfully