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024	7		_a10.1163/9789004417120 _2DOI
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100	1		_aDalrymple-Smith, Angus, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCommercial transitions and abolition in West Africa 1630-1860 / _cby Angus Dalrymple-Smith.
264		1	_aLeiden Boston : _bBRILL, _c2020.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aInternational Studies in Human Rights; _vvolume127
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0	0	_tList of Figures, Maps and Tables --   List of Appendices --   Introduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition --  1 From Slaves to ‘legitimate commerce’: Different Places, Different Times --  2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World --  3 Accounting for Regional Differences --  4 Organisation -- Part 1 -- Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade with West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century --   1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century --  1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century --  2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century --   2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680–1800 --  1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture? --  2 Main Results --  3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks --  4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681–1807 --  5 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and What were the Impacts on Different Regions? --   3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century --  1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade --  2 Real Value and Structure of West Africa’s Commodity Trade --  3 Regional Trade --  4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade -- Part 2 -- The Long-Term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies --   4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans --  1 Long-term Trade Contacts --  2 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition --  3 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808 --  4 Gold and the Asante State --  5 Household Labour Decisions --   5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production --  1 External Trade --  2 The Value of the Commodity Trade and ‘comey’ --  3 Britain and Palm Oil Trading --  4 Institutional Development in Biafra --  5 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade --  6 Household Production of Palm Oil --   6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery --  1 Long-term Trends in Dahomey’s Trade --  2 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades --  3 Trading Partners --  4 Dahomean Militarism --  5 Militarism and Labour --   Conclusion --  1 Long-Term Patterns of Trade --  2 Diverging Trajectories --  3 The Real Impact of Britain’s Abolition Campaign --  4 Implications and Future Research --   Bibliography --   Published Contemporary Sources --   Secondary Sources --   Online Sources --   Index.
520			_aCommercial 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.
650		0	_aSlavery _zAfrica, West _xHistory.
651		0	_aAfrica, West _xCommerce _xHistory.
651		0	_aAfrica, West _xEconomic conditions.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tCommercial transitions and abolition in West Africa 1630-1860, _dLeiden Boston: BRILL, 2020 _w9789004363458
830		0	_aInternational Studies in Human Rights; _vvolume127.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004417120
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