Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Maps, Tables and Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context
- 2 São Tomé and Príncipe: The first plantation economy in the tropics
- 3 The export of rice and millet from Upper Guinea into the sixteenth-century Atlantic trade
- 4 ‘Our indico designe’: Planting and processing indigo for export, Upper Guinea Coast, 1684–1702
- 5 ‘There's nothing grows in the West Indies but will grow here’: Dutch and English projects of plantation agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1650s–1780s
- 6 The origins of ‘legitimate commerce’
- 7 A Danish experiment in commercial agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1788–93
- 8 ‘The colony has made no progress in agriculture’: Contested perceptions of agriculture in the colonies of Sierra Leone and Liberia
- 9 Church Missionary Society projects of agricultural improvement in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone and Yorubaland
- 10 Agricultural enterprise and unfree labour in nineteenth-century Angola
- 11 Commercial agriculture and the ending of slave-trading and slavery in West Africa, 1780s–1920s
- Index
Notes on Contributors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Maps, Tables and Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context
- 2 São Tomé and Príncipe: The first plantation economy in the tropics
- 3 The export of rice and millet from Upper Guinea into the sixteenth-century Atlantic trade
- 4 ‘Our indico designe’: Planting and processing indigo for export, Upper Guinea Coast, 1684–1702
- 5 ‘There's nothing grows in the West Indies but will grow here’: Dutch and English projects of plantation agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1650s–1780s
- 6 The origins of ‘legitimate commerce’
- 7 A Danish experiment in commercial agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1788–93
- 8 ‘The colony has made no progress in agriculture’: Contested perceptions of agriculture in the colonies of Sierra Leone and Liberia
- 9 Church Missionary Society projects of agricultural improvement in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone and Yorubaland
- 10 Agricultural enterprise and unfree labour in nineteenth-century Angola
- 11 Commercial agriculture and the ending of slave-trading and slavery in West Africa, 1780s–1920s
- Index
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013