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v Contents Preface vii Introduction ix Sylviane A. Diouf Part 1 Defensive Strategies 1. Lacustrine Villages in South Benin as Refuges from the Slave Trade 3 Elisée Soumonni 2. Slave-Raiding and Defensive Systems South of Lake Chad from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 15 Thierno Mouctar Bah 3. The Myth of Inevitability and Invincibility: Resistance to Slavers and the Slave Trade in Central Africa, 1850–1910 31 Dennis D. Cordell 4. The Impact of the Slave Trade on Cayor and Baol: Mutations in Habitat and Land Occupancy 50 Adama Guèye 5. Defensive Strategies: Wasulu, Masina, and the Slave Trade 62 Martin A. Klein 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. vi Contents Part 2 Protective Strategies 6. The Last Resort: Redeeming Family and Friends 81 Sylviane A. Diouf 7. Anglo-E¤k Relations and Protection against Illegal Enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740–1807 101 Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson Part 3 Offensive Strategies 8. Igboland, Slavery, and the Drums of War and Heroism 121 John N. Oriji 9. “A Devotion to the Idea of Liberty at Any Price”: Rebellion and Antislavery in the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 132 Ismail Rashid 10. Strategies of the Decentralized: Defending Communities from Slave Raiders in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450–1815 152 Walter Hawthorne 11. The Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Role of the State 170 Joseph E. Inikori 12. Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 199 David Richardson Epilogue: Memory as Resistance: Identity and the Contested History of Slavery in Southeastern Nigeria, an Oral History Project 219 Carolyn A. Brown Contributors 227 Index 231 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. ...

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