Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies

Preface

vii Preface The essays included in this volume were presented at a conference entitled “Fighting Back: African Strategies against the Slave Trade” held at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in February 2001. The conference was sponsored by the Rutgers–New Brunswick Department of History; the Center for African Studies at Rutgers; the Rutgers Research Council; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the UNESCO Slave Route Project on the Nigerian Hinterland at York University; December Ventures, Inc.; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. It was made possible in part by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...