Fighting the slave trade : West African strategies /

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Annotation 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 wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Oxford, England : Ohio University Press ; James Currey, 2003.
Colección:Western African studies.
Temas:
Slave trade > Africa, West > History > Congresses.
Slave trade > Africa, West > Congresses.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique occidentale > Congrès.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique occidentale > Histoire > Congrès.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Commerce.
Slave trade.
West Africa.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.

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