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Book SynopsisThis collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries.
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Sylviane A. Diouf I DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES Lacustrine villages in south Benin as refuge from the slave trade by Elisee Soumonni - Slave raiding & defensive systems south of Lake Chad from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century by Thierno Mouctar Bab - The myth of inevitability & invincibility: resistance to slavers & the slave trade in Central Africa, 1850-1910 by Dennis D. Cordell - The impact of the slave trade on Cayor & Baol: mutations in habitat & land occupancy by Adama Gueye - Defensive strategies: Wasulu, Masina & the slave trade by Martin A. Klein II PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES The last resort: redeeming family & friends by Sylviane A. Diouf - Anglo-Efik relations & protection against illegal enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740-1807 by Paul E. Lovejoy & David Richardson III OFFENSIVE STRATEGIES Igboland, slavery & the drums of war & heroism by John N. Oriji - 'A devotion to the idea of liberty at any price': rebellion & antislavery in the Upper Guinea coast in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries by Ismail Rashid - Strategies of the decentralized: defending communities from slave raiders in coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450-1815 by Walter Hawthorne - The struggle against the transatlantic slave trade: the role of the state by Joseph E. Inikori - Shipboard revolts, African authority & the transatlantic slave trade by David Richardson - Epilogue: memory as resistance by Carolyn A. Brown.
