ISBN:
9789004363458
,
9789004460898
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 278 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Series Statement:
Studies in global slavery volume 9
Series Statement:
Studies in global slavery
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dalrymple-Smith, Angus Commercial transitions and abolition in West Africa 1630-1860
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dalrymple-Smith, Angus Commercial transitions and abolition in West Africa 1630-1860
DDC:
306.3/620966
Keywords:
1630-1860
;
Sklaverei
;
Kolonialismus
;
Außenhandel
;
Kommerzialisierung
;
Internationale Wirtschaft
;
Geschichte
;
Westafrika
;
Slavery History
;
Africa, West Commerce
;
History
;
Africa, West Economic conditions
;
Westafrika
;
Sklavenhandel
;
Kolonialismus
;
Handel
;
Geschichte 1630-1860
Abstract:
"Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630-1860 by Angus Dalrymple-Smith offers a fresh perspective on why the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities instead of slaves in the nineteenth century. 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 'legitimate commerce' 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"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite 255-273
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