From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce

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.

ISBN 0521523060   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521523066 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 430 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series editor Anderson, David, Brown, Carolyn, Clapham, Christopher Format Paperback   Series ISSN 86 Publication date 08 Aug 2002   Series title African Studies Library of Congress HF3920 .F76 1995   Height (mm) 228 DEWEY 380.1096609033   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY edition DC21   Spine width (mm) 17 Pages 292   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

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.

"The volume nicely marks the maturation in African historiography since Hopkins first raised the question inspiring it." Historian

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