Fighting the slave trade : West African strategies / Sylviane A. Diouf, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952-

Series:

Western African studies.

Western African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Africa, West--History--Congresses.

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Oxford, England : James Currey, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation. Fighting the Slave Trade is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of th

Contents:

Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Defensive Strategies; 1 Lacustrine Villages in South Benin as Refuges from the Slave Trade; 2 Slave-Raiding and Defensive Systems South of Lake Chad from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century; 3 The Myth of Inevitability and Invincibility; 4 The Impact of the Slave Trade on Cayor and Baol; 5 Defensive Strategies; Part 2 Protective Strategies; 6 The Last Resort; 7 Anglo-Efik Relations and Protection against Illegal Enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740-1807; Part 3 Offensive Strategies; 8 Igboland, Slavery, and the Drums of War and Heroism

9 "A Devotion to the Idea of Liberty at Any Price"10 Strategies of the Decentralized; 11 The Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade; 12 Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Epilogue Memory as Resistance; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held Feb. 2001 at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821441800

0821441809

OCLC:

884016763