Fighting the Slave Trade West African Strategies.

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This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Diouf, Sylviane A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Martlesham : Boydell & Brewer, Limited, 2003.
Series:Western African studies.
Subjects:
Slave trade > Africa, West > History > Congresses.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique occidentale > Histoire > Congrès.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Slave trade
West Africa
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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

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