From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West AfricaRobin Law Cambridge University Press, 8 aug 2002 - 292 pagina's This edited collection, written by leading specialists, deals with nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade. Approaching the subject from an African perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved, and provide new insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, origins of European imperialism, and longer term issues of economic development in Africa. |
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 1 |
The West African palm oil trade in the nineteenth century | 57 |
The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in Dahomey | 78 |
the Asante response to the ending | 93 |
Plantations and labour in the southeast Gold Coast from | 119 |
Owners slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial | 144 |
Slaves Igbo women and palm oil in the nineteenth century | 172 |
Legitimate trade and gender relations in Yorubaland | 195 |
the SaharaSahel | 215 |
The New International Economic Order in the nineteenth | 240 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
A. G. Hopkins Adandozan Africa London African trade agricultural Akuapem Apatira areas argued Asante Asogbon Atlantic slave trade Atlantic trade Bight of Benin Bight of Biafra Bonny Britain British abolition coastal colonial commercial transition crisis of adaptation Dahomey Danish plantations decline demand for slaves early Economic History Eltis established European evidence expansion export trade French gender Ghezo Gold Coast growth hinterland Igbo impact imperialism important increased interior internal JNCC Klein kola Lagos land large-scale LaTorre legitimate Liverpool Lovejoy male McDougall Meillassoux merchants Ngwa Ngwa region nineteenth century Northrup number of slaves Old Calabar owners palm oil exports palm oil trade palm produce trade period political price of slaves production Régis rise Robin Law role rulers Saharan Sahel salt slave and palm slave exports slave labour slave prices slavery small-scale social societies Sokoto Caliphate suggests trans-Saharan Umarian wealth West Africa Whydah Wilks women Yorubaland