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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

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

Series:

Western African Studies

Western African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Fighting the slave trade

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : James Currey, 2004.

Summary:

This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It concludes with a reflective epilogue on the memory of slavery.<br><br>North America: Ohio U Press

Contents:

Lacustrine villages in south Benin as refuges from the slave trade / Elisě Soumonni

Slave-raiding and defensive systems south of Lake Chad from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / Thierno Mouctar Bah

The myth of inevitability and invincibility: resistance to slavers and the slave trade in central Africa, 1850-1910 / Dennis D. Cordell

The impact of the slave trade on Cayor and Baol: mutations in habitat and land occupancy / Adama Guÿe

Defensive strategies: Wasulu, Masina, and the slave trade / Martin A. Klein

The last resort: redeeming family and friends / Sylviane A. Diouf

Anglo-Efik relations and protection against illegal enslavement at old Calabar, 1740-1807 / Paul E. Lovejoy, David Richardson

Igboland, slavery, and the drums of war and heroism / John N. Oriji

'A devotion to the idea of liberty at any price': rebellion and antislavery in the upper Guinea coast in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ismail Rashid

Strategies of the decentralized: defending communities from slave raiders in costal Guinea-Bissau, 1450-1815 / Walter Hawthorne

The struggle against the transatlantic slave trade: the role of the state / Joseph E. Inikori

Shipboard revolts, African authority, and the transatlantic slave trade / David Richardson

Memory as resistance: identity and the contested history of slavery in southeastern Nigeria, an oral history project / Carolyn A. Brown.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2017).

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78204-774-3

OCLC:

1263869599