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| Title: | Rebellion, Marronage and Jihad: Strategies of Resistance to Slavery on the Sierra Leone Coast, c.1783-1796 |
| Author: | Mouser, Bruce  |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
| Volume: | 48 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | March |
| Pages: | 27-44 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Guinea Sierra Leone |
| Subjects: | slave rebellions 1700-1799 Development and Technology History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Religion and Witchcraft |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4501015 |
| Abstract: | The Yangekori Rebellion began around 1783 in the coastal State of Moria, located in the borderlands of Guinea and Sierra Leone. This rebellion, which lasted for more than a decade - it ended in 1796 -, included domestic and market-bound slaves as well as free persons, all of whom became involved in promoting significant changes in traditional socioeconomic and political patterns. What made this rebellion unique, however, were its complex and local-based context, its multiple centres and its substantial involvement in a timely Islamic movement intent on transforming coastal society. Also instructive is the synergetic response that occurred among autocratic and otherwise quarrelsome rulers who were responsible for ending this rebellion, for re-establishing landholding patterns, and for defending themselves effectively against socioeconomic and political change. The several Moria-based rebellions of this period occurred as a consequence essentially of local dynamics and not necessarily as by-products of the slave trade as such. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |
