Fighting the Slave Trade: West African strategies by Sylviane A. DioufCall Number: HT1332 .F54 2003
ISBN: 0821415174
Publication Date: 2003-10-24
Focused on West Africa, the essays collected here examine in detail the defensive, protective, and offensive strategies of individuals, families, communities, and states. In chapters discussing the manipulation of the environment, resettlement, the redemption of captives, the transformation of social relations, political centralization, marronage, violent assaults on ships and entrepôts, shipboard revolts, and controlled participation in the slave trade as a way to procure the means to attack it, From Publisher