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Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic Africa (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,245
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Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic Africa (Hardcover, New): Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz, Silke...

Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic Africa (Hardcover, New)

Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz, Silke Strickrodt; Contributions by Bronwen Everill, Christopher Brown, Colleen E. Kriger, David Eltis, Gareth Austin, Gerhard Seibert, Kehinde Olabimtan

Series: Western Africa Series

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Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery. 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 theearly stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent African producers. Thisidea gained greater currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slaveryin Africa persisted into the colonial period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.

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Imprint: James Currey
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Western Africa Series
Release date: October 2013
First published: 2013
Editors: Robin Law • Suzanne Schwarz • Silke Strickrodt
Contributors: Bronwen Everill (Customer) • Christopher Brown (Contributor) • Colleen E. Kriger (Author) • David Eltis (Contributor) • Gareth Austin • Gerhard Seibert • Kehinde Olabimtan
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 288
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-84701-075-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation
Books > History > African history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN: 1-84701-075-X
Barcode: 9781847010759

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