Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa edited by Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz and Silke Strickrodt

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Law, Robin, editor.

Schwarz, Suzanne, editor.

Strickrodt, Silke, 1970- editor.

Series:

Western Africa series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Social aspects--Africa, West--History--18th century.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--Social aspects--Africa, West--History--19th century.

Slave trade--Africa, West--History--18th century.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Africa, West--History--19th century.

Slavery--Africa, West--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--Africa, West--History--19th century.

Africa, West--Economic conditions--18th century.

Africa, West.

Africa, West--Economic conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

xv, 272 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2013.

Summary:

This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century.

Contents:

The slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context / David Eltis

So Tomé and Príncipe : The first plantation economy in the tropics / Gerhard Seibert

The export of rice and millet from Upper Guinea into the 16th-century Atlantic trade / Toby Green

'Our indico designe' : planting and processing indigo for export, Upper Guinea coast, 1684-1702 / Colleen E. Kriger

'There's nothing grows in the West Indies but will grow here' : European projects of plantation agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1650s-1780s / Robin Law

The origins of 'legitimate commerce' / Christopher Leslie Brown

A Danish project of commercial agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1788-1793 / Per Hernaes

'The Colony has made no progress in agriculture' : contested perceptions of agriculture in the colonies of Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill

Church Missionary Society projects of agricultural improvement in the 19th century : Sierra Leone and Yorubaland / Kehinde Olabimtan

Agricultural enterprise and unfree labour in 19th-century Angola / Roquinaldo Ferreira

Commercial agriculture and the ending of slave-trading and slavery in West Africa, 1780s-1920s / Gareth Austine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

ISBN:

9781847010759

184701075X

9781847011367

1847011365

OCLC:

829738488