Fighting the slave trade [[electronic resource] ] : West African strategies / / Sylviane A. Diouf, editor

• Autore: Diouf Sylviane A (Sylviane Anna), <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press; Oxford, England, : James Currey, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 380.1/44/0966; 380.1440966
• Soggetto topico: Slave trade - Africa, West - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DioufSylviane A <1952-> (Sylviane Anna)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; 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 ; 9 "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
• Sommario/riassunto: While 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Fighting the slave trade
• ISBN: 0-8214-4180-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910449732303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Western African Studies