RT Book
T1 Ransoming, captivity & piracy in Africa and the Mediterranean
T2 The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora
A2 Lofkrantz, Jennifer
A2 Ojo, Olatunji
LA English
PP Trenton London Cape Town Nairobi Addis Ababa Asmara Ibadan New Delhi
PB Africa World Press
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1620969351
AB Ransoming practices in historical and contemporary perspective / Jennifer Lofkrantz and Olatunji Ojo -- "Para que me saque cabesea por cabesa..." : exchanging Muslim and Christian slaves across the Mediterranean / Daniel Hershenzon -- Ransoming "Turks" from France's royal galleys / Gillian Weiss -- Ransoming practices and "Barbary Coast" slavery : negotiations relating to Liverpool slave traders in the late eighteenth century / Suzanne Schwarz -- "The disgrace of Christendom" : shipwreck and "ransoming" in southern Morocco (1780s-1820s) / Mohamed H. Mohamed -- Idealism and pragmatism : the related West African discourses on identity, captivity, and ransoming / Jennifer Lofkrantz -- European captives and African captors on the Gold Coast, 1869-1874 / Olatunji Ojo -- West African responses to illegal enslavement and failed ransom negotiations / Jennifer Lofkrantz and Olatunji Ojo -- Biafra and the AGIP oil workers : ransoming and the modern nation state in perspective / Roy Doron -- Deferred reciprocity : historical and theoretical perspectives on ransoming and the ethics of compensatory justice / Amy Niang -- Evolution and socio-political economy of ransoming in Nigeria since the late twentieth century / Akachi Odoemene -- Contemporary piracy and ransoming off the coast of Somalia / Abdi M. Kusow -- From hostage taking to ransoming : (ab)use of ransoming in 21st century northeast Africa : the lifecycle of piracy in Somalia / Awet T. Weldemichael
NO "This volume arises from a conference, "Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Ransoming Practices," that was held at the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas at York University on April 25-26, 2014."--Preface
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-358) and index
CN HV6604.A355
SN 9781569024928
K1 Ransom : Mediterranean Region
K1 Piracy : Mediterranean Region