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Fighting the slave trade : West African strategies

Title
Fighting the slave trade : West African strategies / Sylviane A. Diouf, editor.
Publication
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Oxford, England : James Currey, 2003.

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Additional Authors
Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952-
Description
xxvii, 242 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Western African studies
Subject
Note
  • Papers presented at a conference held Feb. 2001 at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 04-392
ISBN
  • 0821415166
  • 0821415174 (pbk.)
  • 0852554486 (James Currey : cloth)
  • 0852554478 (James Currey : pbk.)
LCCN
2003056308
OCLC
52455402
Title
Fighting the slave trade : West African strategies / Sylviane A. Diouf, editor.
Imprint
Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Oxford, England : James Currey, 2003.
Series
Western African studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952-
Research Call Number
Sc E 04-392
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