Fighting the Slave Trade
James Currey (Verlag)
978-0-85255-447-0 (ISBN)
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.
North America: Ohio U Press
Sylviane A. Diouf is a researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Introduction by Sylviane A. Diouf I DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES Lacustrine villages in south Benin as refuge from the slave trade by Elisee Soumonni - Slave raiding & defensive systems south of Lake Chad from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century by Thierno Mouctar Bab - The myth of inevitability & invincibility: resistance to slavers & the slave trade in Central Africa, 1850-1910 by Dennis D. Cordell - The impact of the slave trade on Cayor & Baol: mutations in habitat & land occupancy by Adama Gueye - Defensive strategies: Wasulu, Masina & the slave trade by Martin A. Klein II PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES The last resort: redeeming family & friends by Sylviane A. Diouf - Anglo-Efik relations & protection against illegal enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740-1807 by Paul E. Lovejoy & David Richardson III OFFENSIVE STRATEGIES Igboland, slavery & the drums of war & heroism by John N. Oriji - 'A devotion to the idea of liberty at any price': rebellion & antislavery in the Upper Guinea coast in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries by Ismail Rashid - Strategies of the decentralized: defending communities from slave raiders in coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450-1815 by Walter Hawthorne - The struggle against the transatlantic slave trade: the role of the state by Joseph E. Inikori - Shipboard revolts, African authority & the transatlantic slave trade by David Richardson - Epilogue: memory as resistance by Carolyn A. Brown.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.1.2004 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Western African Studies |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 406 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85255-447-8 / 0852554478 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85255-447-0 / 9780852554470 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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