Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies"Focused on West Africa, these essays examine in detail the defensive, protective, and offensive strategies of individuals, families, communities, and states. Some chapters discuss the manipulation of the environment, resettlement, the redemption of captives, the transformation of social relations, political centralization, and marronage. Others deal with violent assaults on ships and entrepots, shipboard revolts, and controlled participation in the slave trade as a way to procure the means to attack it."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Lacustrine Villages in South Benin as Refuges | 3 |
SlaveRaiding and Defensive Systems | 15 |
The Impact of the Slave Trade | 50 |
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Abam African History Allada Americas Atakpa Atlantic Africa Atlantic slave trade attacks Bagirmi Balanta Banda Baol Barry Benin Bight of Biafra Blyden British capture Cayor centralized coastal Colonial communities Curtin Dahomey decentralized defense demand for captives economic Efik Efik traders eighteenth century Ekpe elite Eltis enslaved ethnic European traders export Fula Futa Jallon Ganvié Gold Coast Gorée groups Guèye Guinea-Bissau hinterland Igbo Igboland impact important Inikori interior interviews Islamic Journal of African kidnapping king kingdom Lake Chad Lake Nokoué London Lovejoy Mandingo merchants migration military Muslim Nigeria nineteenth century north-central Africa Obutong Old Calabar oral tradition Oriji Paris pawns population Portuguese protect raiders ransom redeemed refuge region resistance Richardson River Senegal Senegambia settlement Sierra Leone slave raiding slave ships slaveholders Slavery social societies sold Soso strategies Studies Sudan tion Tofinu town Upper Guinea Coast villages violence voyage Wadström Wasulu West Africa western Africa women