Commercial agriculture, the slave trade & slavery in Atlantic Africa /
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
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk : Rochester, NY :
James Currey ; Boydell & Brewer,
2013
Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey, 2013 Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : 2016 |
| Series: | Western Africa series
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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