Trade and Economic Change on the Gold Coast, 1807-1874
Author: Edward Reynolds
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 240
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Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robin Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-08
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521523066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa.
Author: Jarvis L. Hargrove
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015-12-09
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0739187864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyzes the Gold Coast and the Asante kingdom in the years following the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and prior to the start of colonial rule. The Asante state, one of the largest in the Gold Coast and West Africa after the eighteenth century is the central focus of this work. Studying their transition from a large scale supplier of captives to the transatlantic slave trade to traders in legitimate goods is a critical component that should be analyzed across West Africa. This work highlights the political and economic relationships between the interior Asante state with surrounding African groups and Europeans, chiefly British traders who entered the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author: Martin Lynn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521893268
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade.
Author: Trevor R. Getz
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2004-04-20
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0821441833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A series of transformations, reforms, and attempted abolitions of slavery form a core narrative of nineteenth-century coastal West Africa. As the region’s role in Atlantic commercial networks underwent a gradual transition from principally that of slave exporter to producer of “legitimate goods” and dependent markets, institutions of slavery became battlegrounds in which European abolitionism, pragmatic colonialism, and indigenous agency clashed. In Slavery and Reform in West Africa, Trevor Getz demonstrates that it was largely on the anvil of this issue that French and British policy in West Africa was forged. With distant metropoles unable to intervene in daily affairs, local European administrators, striving to balance abolitionist pressures against the resistance of politically and economically powerful local slave owners, sought ways to satisfy the latter while placating or duping the former. The result was an alliance between colonial officials, company agents, and slave-owning elites that effectively slowed, sidetracked, or undermined serious attempts to reform slave holding. Although slavery was outlawed in both regions, in only a few isolated instances did large-scale emancipations occur. Under the surface, however, slaves used the threat of self-liberation to reach accommodations that transformed the master-slave relationship. By comparing the strategies of colonial administrators, slave-owners, and slaves across these two regions and throughout the nineteenth century, Slavery and Reform in West Africa reveals not only the causes of the astounding success of slave owners, but also the factors that could, and in some cases did, lead to slave liberations. These findings have serious implications for the wider study of slavery and emancipation and for the history of Africa generally.
Author: Saliha Belmessous
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0199391785
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Empire by Treaty: Negotiating European Expansion, 1600-1900' includes indigenous voices in the debate over European appropriation of overseas territories. It is concerned with European efforts to negotiate with indigenous peoples the cession of their sovereignty through treaties.
Author: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza
Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9789966460257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The nineteenth century in Africa was a time of revolution and tumultuous change in virtually all spheres. Violent dry spells, the staggered abolition of the slave trade, mass migrations and an influx of new settlers characterized the century. Regional trade links grew stronger and spread further. The century also saw the beginnings of the ruthless and bloody quest for foreign dominion.
Author: Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-10-10
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ISBN-13: 1139502778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless, slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.
Author: Kevin Shillington
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 1112
ISBN-13: 1135456690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covering the entire continent from Morocco, Libya, and Egypt in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in the south, and the surrounding islands from Cape Verde in the west to Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles in the east, the Encyclopedia of African History is a new A-Z reference resource on the history of the entire African continent. With entries ranging from the earliest evolution of human beings in Africa to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this comprehensive three volume Encyclopedia is the first reference of this scale and scope. Also includes 99 maps.
Author: Kate Fullagar
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1421426560
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