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Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630â1860
Series: - Studies in Global Slavery, Volume: 9
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Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630â1860 offers a fresh perspective on why, in the nineteenth century, the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities, instead of exporters of slaves. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data.
It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called âlegitimate commerceâ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.
It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called âlegitimate commerceâ in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world.
Angus Dalrymple-Smith, Ph.D (2017), Wageningen University, is a lecturer and researcher on the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on West African economies and societies in the early modern period.
âList of Figures, Maps and Tables
âList of Appendices
âIntroduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition
â1 From Slaves to âlegitimate commerceâ: Different Places, Different Times
â2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World
â3 Accounting for Regional Differences
â4 Organisation
â1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
â1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century
â2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century
â2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680â1800
â1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?
â2 Main Results
â3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks
â4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681â1807
â5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions?
â3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
â1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade
â2 Real Value and Structure of West Africaâs Commodity Trade
â3 Regional Trade
â4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade
â4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans
â1 Long-term Trade Contacts
â2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition
â3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808
â4 Gold and the Asante State
â5 Household Labour Decisions
â5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production
â1 External Trade
â2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and âcomeyâ
â3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading
â4 Institutional Development in Biafra
â5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade
â6 Household Production of Palm Oil
â6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery
â1 Long-term Trends in Dahomeyâs Trade
â2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades
â3 Trading Partners
â4 Dahomean Militarism
â5 Militarism and Labour
âConclusion
â1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade
â2 Diverging Trajectories
â3 The Real Impact of Britainâs Abolition Campaign
â4 Implications and Future Research
âBibliography
ââPublished Contemporary Sources
ââSecondary Sources
ââOnline Sources
âIndex
âList of Appendices
âIntroduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition
â1 From Slaves to âlegitimate commerceâ: Different Places, Different Times
â2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World
â3 Accounting for Regional Differences
â4 Organisation
Part 1
Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade with West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century
â1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
â1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century
â2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century
â2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680â1800
â1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?
â2 Main Results
â3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks
â4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681â1807
â5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions?
â3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
â1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade
â2 Real Value and Structure of West Africaâs Commodity Trade
â3 Regional Trade
â4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade
Part 2
The Long-Term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies
â4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans
â1 Long-term Trade Contacts
â2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition
â3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808
â4 Gold and the Asante State
â5 Household Labour Decisions
â5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production
â1 External Trade
â2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and âcomeyâ
â3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading
â4 Institutional Development in Biafra
â5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade
â6 Household Production of Palm Oil
â6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery
â1 Long-term Trends in Dahomeyâs Trade
â2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades
â3 Trading Partners
â4 Dahomean Militarism
â5 Militarism and Labour
âConclusion
â1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade
â2 Diverging Trajectories
â3 The Real Impact of Britainâs Abolition Campaign
â4 Implications and Future Research
âBibliography
ââPublished Contemporary Sources
ââSecondary Sources
ââOnline Sources
âIndex
All interested in the impact of the transatlantic slave trade on the economies and societies of the Atlantic world in the early modern period.