Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (271 p.)
ISBN:
9781782049753
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1782049754
Serie:
Western African Studies
Inhalt:
This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Intro -- 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
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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
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780852554470
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Diouf, Sylviane A Fighting the Slave Trade Martlesham : Boydell & Brewer, Limited,c2003 ISBN 9780852554470
Sprache:
Englisch
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