Fighting the Slave Trade - West African Strategies

Explores in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it.

About the author

The author of the award-winning Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, Sylviane A. Diouf also initiated and co-organized the conference "Fighting Back: African Strategies against the Slave Trade" held at Rutgers University. She is a researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.

Product details

• Authors: Sylviane A. Diouf
• Assisted by: Sylviane A. Diouf (Editor)
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2003
• EAN: 9780821415177
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-1517-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 226 mm x 154 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 424 g
• Series: Western African Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics