Preface

Summary

THE ESSAYS INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME were presented at a conference entitled “Fighting Back: African Strategies against the Slave Trade” held at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in February 2001. The conference was sponsored by the Rutgers–New Brunswick Department of History; the Center for African Studies at Rutgers; the Rutgers Research Council; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the UNESCO Slave Route Project on the Nigerian Hinterland at York University; December Ventures, Inc.; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. It was made possible in part by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.