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Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa - The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa - The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: African Studies
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A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth
century is the transition from the slave trade to 'legitimate'
commerce, and its significance for the African societies of the
region. In this period of transition, trade in palm oil was at the
core of relations between Britain and West Africa, and of immense
importance to the economies of large parts of West Africa. Martin
Lynn's authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade
covers the whole of this critical period for all of West Africa. It
explains how the palm oil trade grew organically out of the
organisation of the slave trade. The situation changed sharply with
the development of steam communication between Britain and West
Africa from the 1850s, leading to severe problems for the commerce
in the second half of the century, the erosion of African brokers'
powers, and the restructuring of the trade thereafter. The result
was a crisis within the trade towards the end of the century and,
eventually, with the arrival of colonial rule, the ending of the
long established structures of the commerce.
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