| Description |
xxvii, 242 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Western African studies
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| Note |
Papers presented at a conference held Feb. 2001 at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Lacustrine villages in south Benin as refuges from the slave trade / Elise Soumonni -- Slave-raiding and defensive systems south of Lake Chad from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century / Thierno Mouctar Bah -- Myth of inevitability and invincibility : resistance to slavers and the slave trade in central Africa, 1850-1910 / Dennis D. Cordell -- Impact of the slave trade on Cayor and Baol : mutations in habitat and land occupancy / Adama Guye -- Defensive strategies : Wasulu, Masina, and the slave trade / Martin A. Klein -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History.
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| Added Author |
Diouf, Sylviane A. (Sylviane Anna), 1952-
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| ISBN |
0821415166 |
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0821415174 (pbk.) |
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0852554486 (James Currey : cloth) |
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0852554478 (James Currey : pbk.) |
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