Twelve historians document how West Africans actively fought the Atlantic slave trade — relocating villages, fortifying towns, redeeming captives, revolting aboard slave ships, and waging war on the trade itself. Drawn from a 2001 Rutgers conference, it was the first book devoted to African resistance strategies rather than African participation.
Author: Sylviane A. Diouf (editor) · Original publisher: Ohio University Press (Athens), 2003
