UID:
almafu_9960119025402883
Format:
1 online resource (xxvii, 242 pages)
ISBN:
1-78204-975-4
Series Statement:
Western African Studies
Content:
This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It concludes with a reflective epilogue on the memory of slavery. North America: Ohio U Press.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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Part 1 Defensive Strategies --
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1. Lacustrine Villages in South Benin as Refuges from the Slave Trade --
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2. Slave-Raiding and Defensive Systems South of Lake Chad from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century --
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3. The Myth of Inevitability and Invincibility: Resistance to Slavers and the Slave Trade in Central Africa, 1850–1910 --
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4. The Impact of the Slave Trade on Cayor and Baol: Mutations in Habitat and Land Occupancy --
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5. Defensive Strategies: Wasulu, Masina, and the Slave Trade --
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Part 2 Protective Strategies --
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6. The Last Resort: Redeeming Family and Friends --
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7. Anglo-E¤k Relations and Protection against Illegal Enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740–1807 --
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Part 3 Offensive Strategies --
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8. Igboland, Slavery, and the Drums of War and Heroism --
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9. “A Devotion to the Idea of Liberty at Any Price”: Rebellion and Antislavery in the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --
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10. Strategies of the Decentralized: Defending Communities from Slave Raiders in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450–1815 --
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11. The Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Role of the State --
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12. Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade --
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Epilogue: Memory as Resistance: Identity and the Contested History of Slavery in Southeastern Nigeria, an Oral History Project --
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Contributors --
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Index
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1515/9781782049753
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782049753/type/BOOK
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