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Article: Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies, edited by Sylviane A. Diouf. Western African Studies. Co-published with James Currey. OCBC African Studies. Athens, Ohio, and Oxford, Ohio University Press and Swallow Press, 2003. xxvii, 241 pp. $59.95 US (cloth), $26.95 US (paper).
Studies on slave resistance in the Americas are full of heroic activities which involved armed revolts, flight, suicide, and other forms of protest were involved. These contrast sharply with Africa where similar studies have been largely concerned with slave flights (fugitive slaves). The divergence of attention has even led many to presume that Africa was a "reservoir" where slaves ...