Fighting the Slave Trade : West African Strategies.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I 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: Resistance to Slavers and the Slave Trade in Central Africa, 1850-1910 -- 4. The Impact of the Slave Trade on Cayor and Baol: Mutations in Habitat and Land Occupancy -- 5. Defensive Strategies: Wasulu, Masina, and the Slave Trade -- PART 2 PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES -- 6. The Last Resort: Redeeming Family and Friends -- 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": Rebellion and Antislavery in the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 10. Strategies of the Decentralized: Defending Communities from Slave Raiders in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450-1815 -- 11. The Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Role of the State -- 12. Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- Epilogue: Memory as Resistance: Identity and the Contested History of Slavery in Southeastern Nigeria, an Oral History Project -- Contributors -- Index.

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.

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