TY - ICOMM
T1 - Adga Tome: Damma’s World, From Gbe to Dutch Creole
T2 - New Terms for the Universe
AU - O. Aboh, Enoch
AU - Ameka, Felix
AU - Essegbey, James
AU - Gerbner, Katharine
AU - Sebro, Louise
AU - Stein , Peter
AU - Van Rossem, Cefas
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - A team of historians, linguists, and curators examines the term adga tome, used by one African woman named Damma in a 1739 petition to the queen of Denmark. The term’s many translations challenge contemporary notions of nation, diaspora, and belonging, and offer a window into the complex world of one eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean woman.
AB - A team of historians, linguists, and curators examines the term adga tome, used by one African woman named Damma in a 1739 petition to the queen of Denmark. The term’s many translations challenge contemporary notions of nation, diaspora, and belonging, and offer a window into the complex world of one eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean woman.
UR - http://VisRediger https://newtermsfortheuniverse.org/adga-tome/introduction/
M3 - Net publication - Internet publication
PB - New Terms for the Universe
ER -