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| Title: | Fighting the slave trade: West African strategies |
| Editor: | Diouf, Sylviane A. |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Pages: | 242 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Western African studies |
| City of publisher: | Athens |
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
| ISBN: | 0821415166; 0821415174; 0852554478; 0852554486 |
| Geographic terms: | Central Africa West Africa Mali Senegal Guinea-Bissau Benin Nigeria Cameroon Chad |
| Subjects: | 2001 slave trade abolition of slavery conference papers (form) |
| Abstract: | The essays in this collective volume were presented at a conference entitled 'Fighting back: African strategies against the slave trade', held at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in February 2001. Part 1 covers defensive strategies (in lacustrine villages in south Benin, by E. Soumonni; south of Lake Chad, by T.M. Bah; in Central Africa, 1850-1910, by D.D. Cordell; in Cayor and Baol, Senegal, by A. Guèye; in Wasulu and Masina, Mali, by M.A. Klein). Part 2 looks at protective strategies, such as redemption (S.A. Diouf) and the ethnic, cultural, political and institutional mechanisms against illegal enslavement used by Efik traders in business with the British at Old Calabar, 1740-1807 (P.E. Lovejoy and D. Richardson). Part 3 examines offensive strategies against slavers in Igboland (J.N. Oriji) and among the Balanta of Guinea-Bissau, 1450-1815 (W. Hawthorne); domestic slave revolts on the Upper Guinea Coast in the 18th and 19th centuries (I. Rashid); the role of the African State in the struggle against the transatlantic slave trade (J.E. Inikori); and the relationship of shipboard revolts to the structural characteristics of the slave trade and to the political economy of slavery within Africa (D. Richardson). In an epilogue, C. Brown describes an oral history project that seeks to document the ways that communities in the Biafran hinterland of southeastern Nigeria remember the slave trade. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
