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