Commercial agriculture, the slave trade & slavery in Atlantic Africa. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz & Silke Strickrodt.
• Editors: Law, Robin; Schwarz, Suzanne; Strickrodt, Silke, 1970-
• Contents: Introduction; The slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context - David Eltis; São 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 Brown; Friederichsnopel: 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 Austin
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (288 pages)
• Subjects: 306.3620966; Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Africa, West -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses; Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 18th century; Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Africa, West -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses; Slavery -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses; Africa, West -- Economic conditions -- 18th century -- Congresses; Africa, West -- Economic conditions -- 19th century -- Congresses
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782041788; 1782041788
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