From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce

The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa

• Author(s): Robin Law,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 292
• ISBN_10: 0521523060
  ISBN_13: 9780521523066
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , Business & Economics / Economic History , History / Africa / General , History / Africa / West , History / Europe / Renaissance , Social Science / Slavery ,

Description:... 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.