Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp ix-xxviii

PART 1 - DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES

pp 1-2

1 - Lacustrine Villages in South Benin as Refuges from the Slave Trade

pp 3-14

2 - Slave-Raiding and Defensive Systems South of Lake Chad from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

pp 15-30

3 - The Myth of Inevitability and Invincibility: Resistance to Slavers and the Slave Trade in Central Africa, 1850–1910

pp 31-49

4 - The Impact of the Slave Trade on Cayor and Baol: Mutations in Habitat and Land Occupancy

pp 50-61

5 - Defensive Strategies: Wasulu, Masina, and the Slave Trade

pp 62-78

PART 2 - PROTECTIVE STRATEGIES

pp 79-80

6 - The Last Resort: Redeeming Family and Friends

pp 81-100

7 - Anglo-Efik Relations and Protection against Illegal Enslavement at Old Calabar, 1740–1807

pp 101-118

PART 3 - OFFENSIVE STRATEGIES

pp 119-120

8 - Igboland, Slavery, and the Drums of War and Heroism

pp 121-131

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

pp 132-151

10 - Strategies of the Decentralized: Defending Communities from Slave Raiders in Coastal Guinea-Bissau, 1450–1815

pp 152-169

11 - The Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Role of the State

pp 170-198

12 - Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

pp 199-218

Epilogue: Memory as Resistance: Identity and the Contested History of Slavery in Southeastern Nigeria, an Oral History Project

pp 219-226

Contributors

pp 227-230

Index

pp 231-242