LEADER 03376nam 22006254a 450 001 9910449732303321 005 20191115214347.0 010 $a0-8214-4180-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000245445 035 $a(EBL)1743700 035 $a(OCoLC)884016763 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000536655 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11375596 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536655 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10547642 035 $a(PQKB)10487103 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000279472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234562 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10260598 035 $a(PQKB)11421362 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743700 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000245445 100 $a20030611d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFighting the slave trade$b[electronic resource] $eWest African strategies /$fSylviane A. Diouf, editor 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cOhio University Press ;$aOxford, England $cJames Currey$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 1 $aWestern African studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1517-4 311 $a0-8214-1516-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface; Introduction; Part 1 Defensive Strategies; 1 Lacustrine Villages in South Benin as Refuges from the Slave Trade; 2 Slave-Raiding and Defensive Systems South of Lake Chad from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century; 3 The Myth of Inevitability and Invincibility; 4 The Impact of the Slave Trade on Cayor and Baol; 5 Defensive Strategies; Part 2 Protective Strategies; 6 The Last Resort; 7 Anglo-Efik Relations and Protection against Illegal Enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740-1807; Part 3 Offensive Strategies; 8 Igboland, Slavery, and the Drums of War and Heroism 327 $a9 "A Devotion to the Idea of Liberty at Any Price"10 Strategies of the Decentralized; 11 The Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade; 12 Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Epilogue Memory as Resistance; Contributors; Index 330 $aWhile most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation. Fighting the Slave Trade is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of th 410 0$aWestern African Studies 606 $aSlave trade$zAfrica, West$xHistory$vCongresses 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSlave trade$xHistory 676 $a380.1/44/0966 676 $a380.1440966 700 $aDiouf$b Sylviane A$g(Sylviane Anna),$f1952-$0979263 701 $aDiouf$b Sylviane A$g(Sylviane Anna),$f1952-$0979263 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449732303321 996 $aFighting the slave trade$92232289 997 $aUNINA