From slave trade to 'legitimate' commerce : the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa
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From slave trade to 'legitimate' commerce : the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa
(African studies series, 86)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
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From slave trade to "legitimate" commerce
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"First published 1995"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-271) and index
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This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa.
Table of Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction Robin Law
- 1. The initial 'crisis of adaptation': the impact of British abolition on the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa, 1808-1820 Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson
- 2. The West African palm oil trade in the nineteenth century and the 'crisis of adaptation' Martin Lynn
- 3. The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in Dahomey, 1818-1858 Elisee Soumonni
- 4. Between abolition and Jihad: the Asante response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807-1896 Gareth Austin
- 5. Plantations and labour in the south-east Gold Coast from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century Ray A. Kea
- 6. Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos Kristin Mann
- 7. Slaves, Igbo women and palm oil in the nineteenth century Susan Martin
- 8. 'Legitimate' trade and gender relations in Yorubaland and Dahomey Robin Law
- 9. In search of a desert-edge perspective: the Sahara-Sahel and the Atlantic trade, c. 1815-1900 E. Ann McDougall
- 10. The 'New International Economic Order' in the nineteenth century: Britain's first development plan for Africa A. G. Hopkins
- Appendix: the 'crisis of adaptation': a bibliography
- Index.
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