LEADER 03292nam 22006014a 450 001 9910813210503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $eWest African strategies /$fSylviane A. Diouf, editor 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cOhio University Press ;$aOxford, England $cJames Currey$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 1 $aWestern African studies 300 $aPapers presented at a conference held Feb. 2001 at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. 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 615 0$aSlave trade$xHistory 676 $a380.1/44/0966 701 $aDiouf$b Sylviane A$g(Sylviane Anna),$f1952-$0979263 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813210503321 996 $aFighting the slave trade$93992619 997 $aUNINA