From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The initial ‘crisis of adaptation’: the impact of British abolition on the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa, 1808–1820
- 2 The West African palm oil trade in the nineteenth century and the ‘crisis of adaptation’
- 3 The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in Dahomey, 1818–1858
- 4 Between abolition and Jihad: the Asante response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807–1896
- 5 Plantations and labour in the south-east Gold Coast from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century
- 6 Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos
- 7 Slaves, Igbo women and palm oil in the nineteenth century
- 8 ‘Legitimate’ trade and gender relations in Yorubaland and Dahomey
- 9 In search of a desert-edge perspective: the Sahara-Sahel and the Atlantic trade, c. 1815–1900
- 10 The ‘New International Economic Order’ in the nineteenth century: Britain's first Development Plan for Africa
- Appendix The ‘crisis of adaptation’: a bibliography
- Index
List of contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The initial ‘crisis of adaptation’: the impact of British abolition on the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa, 1808–1820
- 2 The West African palm oil trade in the nineteenth century and the ‘crisis of adaptation’
- 3 The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in Dahomey, 1818–1858
- 4 Between abolition and Jihad: the Asante response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807–1896
- 5 Plantations and labour in the south-east Gold Coast from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century
- 6 Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos
- 7 Slaves, Igbo women and palm oil in the nineteenth century
- 8 ‘Legitimate’ trade and gender relations in Yorubaland and Dahomey
- 9 In search of a desert-edge perspective: the Sahara-Sahel and the Atlantic trade, c. 1815–1900
- 10 The ‘New International Economic Order’ in the nineteenth century: Britain's first Development Plan for Africa
- Appendix The ‘crisis of adaptation’: a bibliography
- Index
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- From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' CommerceThe Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995