Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

by Sylviane A. Diouf

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This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It concludes with a reflective epilogue on the memory of slavery.

North America: Ohio U Press

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Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of the African Diaspora. She is the author, notably, of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (NYU Press, 2013) and Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, and the editor of Fighting show more the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. She is Director of the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library. show less

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