Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

by Sylviane A. Diouf

Book Overview

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. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation.

Fighting the Slave Trade...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821415174
• ISBN13: 9780821415177
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.4"