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From slave trade to "legitimate" commerce : the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa : papers from a conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling

Title
From slave trade to "legitimate" commerce : the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa : papers from a conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling / edited by Robin Law.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Law, Robin.
  • University of Stirling. Centre of Commonwealth Studies.
Description
xi, 278 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
Series Statement
African studies series ; 86
Subjects
Note
  • Conference held April 1993.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 -- The West African palm oil trade in the nineteenth century and the "crisis of adaptation" / Martin Lynn -- The compatibility of the slave and palm-oil trades in Dahomey, 1818-1858 / Elisée Soumoni -- Between abolition and Jihad : the Asante response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807-1896 / Gareth Austin -- Plantations and labour in the south-east Gold Coast from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century / Ray A. Kea -- Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos / Kristin Mann -- Slaves, Igbo women and palm oil in the nineteenth century / Susan Martin -- "Legitimate" trade and gender relations in Yorubaland and Dahomey / Robin Law.
Call Number
Sc E 95-851
ISBN
0521481279
LCCN
95003428
OCLC
  • 31968982
  • NYPG96-B175
Title
From slave trade to "legitimate" commerce : the commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa : papers from a conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling / edited by Robin Law.
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Series
African studies series ; 86
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Law, Robin.
University of Stirling. Centre of Commonwealth Studies.
Research Call Number
Sc E 95-851
JBE 95-2348
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