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Commercial agriculture, the slave trade & slavery in Atlantic Africa /
This challenging new perspective on slave-trading and slavery in Atlantic Africa, examines the transition from slave trading to legitimate trade through the role of commercial agriculture. Re-appraising the links between slavery and colonialism, it will be significant reading for those in colonial s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
James Currey,
2013.
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| Colección: | Western Africa series.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction<br>The slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context
- David Eltis<br>São Tomé and Príncipe: The first plantation economy in the tropics
- Gerhard Seibert<br>The export of rice and millet from Upper Guinea into the 16th-century Atlantic trade
- Toby Green<br>'Our indico designe': Planting and processing indigo for export, Upper Guinea coast, 1684-1702
- Colleen E Kriger<br>'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<br>The origins of 'legitimate commerce'
- Christopher Brown<br>Friederichsnopel: A Danish project of commercial agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1788-1793
- Per Hernaes<br>'The Colony has made no progress in agriculture': Contested perceptions of agriculture in the colonies of Sierra Leone and Liberia
- Bronwen Everill<br>Church Missionary Society projects of agricultural improvement in the 19th century: Sierra Leone and Yorubaland
- Kehinde Olabimtan<br>Agricultural enterprise and unfree labour in 19th-century Angola
- Roquinaldo Ferreira<br>Commercial agriculture and the ending of slave-trading and slavery in West Africa, 1780s-1920s
- Gareth Austin