Description
Slavery, Resistance, and Identity in Early Modern West Africa offers a detailed exploration of the Gajaaga ethnic-state and its complex relationship with slavery during the early modern period. Through rigorous historical analysis, Makhroufi Ousmane Traor demonstrates how ethnic identity functioned as both a organizing principle and a resistance mechanism against enslavement.
The book examines how Gajaaga’s inhabitants navigated the challenges of the slave trade while maintaining cultural cohesion and autonomy. Traor investigates the interconnections between state formation, ethnic consciousness, and strategies of resistance, providing new insights into West African history beyond the conventional narratives of victimization.
This work contributes to the African Identities series by revealing how communities constructed and maintained distinct identities in the face of external pressures, offering valuable perspectives on agency, cultural persistence, and political organization in early modern Africa.
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