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Fighting the slave trade : West African strategies
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Fighting the slave trade : West African strategies

Author: Sylviane A Diouf
Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Oxford, England : James Currey, 2003.
Series: Western African studies
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sylviane A Diouf
ISBN: 0821415166 9780821415160 0821415174 9780821415177 0852554486 9780852554487 0852554478 9780852554470
OCLC Number: 52455402
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held Feb. 2001 at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Description: xxvii, 242 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Western African studies
Responsibility: Sylviane A. Diouf, editor.
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