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.
The author of the award-winning Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, Sylviane A. Diouf also initiated and co-organized the conference “Fighting Back: African Strategies against the Slave Trade” held at Rutgers University. She is a researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.
“This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the
West Africans’ fight against enslavement.”
*Journal of World History*
“The scholars in this collection overwhelmingly argue that certain
populations of West Africans were keenly aware of the devastating
impact of the transatlantic slave trade on their societies, and
these populations sought to mitigate the damages as best they
could.... This collection is particularly useful in teaching
undergraduate and graduate students about the transatlantic slave
trade to counter and balance the pervasive belief that Africans
were either passive victims or active participants in slavery.”
*African Studies Quarterly*
“Fighting the Slave Trade provides a comprehensive and compelling
interpretation of the West African involvement in the Atlantic
trade…Its clear language and engaging style make it relevant both
to specialists and a broader readership.”
*Progress in Development Studies*
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