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Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World - The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885 (Paperback)
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Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World - The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885 (Paperback)
Series: Western Africa Series
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A uniquely detailed account of the dynamics of Afro-European trade
in two states on the western Slave Coast over three centuries and
the transition from slave trade to legitimate commerce. From 1550
to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to
Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal
areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin).
This book looks at the commercialrelations of two states which
played a crucial role in the Atlantic slave trade as well as the
trade in ivory and agricultural produce: Hula, known to European
traders as Grand Popo (now in Benin) and Ge, known as Little Popo
(nowin Togo). Situated between the Gold Coast to the west and the
eastern Slave Coast to the east, this region was an important
supplier of provisions for Europeans and the enslaved Africans they
purchased. Also, due to its positionin the lagoon system, it
facilitated communication along the coast between the trading
companies' headquarters on the western Gold Coast and their
factories on the eastern Slave Coast, particularly at Ouidah, the
Slave Coast's major slave port. In the 19th century, when the trade
at more established ports was disrupted by the men-of-war of the
British anti-slave trade squadron, the western Slave Coast became a
hot-spot of illegal slave trading. Providing a detailed
reconstruction of political and commercial developments in the
western Slave coast, including the transition from the slave trade
to legitimate commerce, this book also reveals the region's
position in the wider trans-Atlantic trade network and how
cross-cultural partnerships were negotiated; the trade's impact on
African coastal "middlemen" communities; and the relative
importance of local and global factors for the history of a region
or community. Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research Fellow at the
Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of
Birmingham. She is co-editor (with Robin Law and Suzanne Schwarz)
of Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic
Africa (James Currey, 2013).
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