While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention. But our picture of the slave trade is incomplete without an examination of the ways in which men and women responded to the threat and reality of enslavement and deportation.
Fighting the Slave Trade is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies Africans used to protect and defend themselves and their communities from...
While most studies of the slave trade focus on the volume of captives and on their ethnic origins, the question of how the Africans organized their...
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda, to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West...
In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children fro...
This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries.
This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a per...
"Persuasively captures the quiet heroism of North American maroons." - Richard Price, author of Maroon Societies
"Impressive research and vivid prose... an important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance." - Eric Foner, author of The Fiery Trial
"One of those rare books that is at once of scholarly significance and will engage a wide readership." - David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History, Emory University
"Persuasively captures the quiet heroism of North American maroons." - Richard Price, author of Maroon Societies
