RESISTANCE ON AFRICAN SOIL
| Not every society in
West Africa promoted slavery. The smaller peoples ("the
stateless societies" to use an older terminology) were more often its
victims than its promoters. Was there no indigenous antislavery
ideology that developed among the less militaristic and imperialistic
peoples of West Africa?. . . I find it dangerous to implicitly assert that
the moral reasoning of African people could not have provided its own
antistructure and antislavery without the Christian impulse.
Randal Jelks in a review of Lamin Sanneh's Abolitionist Abroad, H-Net Book Review, 02 Mar 2001 |