Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa
Regular price
€31.99
A32=Bronwen Everill
A32=Christopher Brown
A32=Colleen E Kriger
A32=David Eltis
A32=Gareth Austin
A32=Gerhard Seibert
A32=Kehinde Olabimtan
Abolition of Slave Trade
Africa
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
automatic-update
B01=Robin Law
B01=Silke Strickrodt
B01=Suzanne Schwarz
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBJH
Category=HBLL
Category=HBTQ
Category=HBTS
Category=NHH
Category=NHTQ
Category=NHTS
Commercial Agriculture
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
European Maritime Trade
Language_English
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
Production of Export Crops
PS=Active
Robin Law
Silke Strickrodt
Slave Trade
Slavery
softlaunch
Suzanne Schwarz
Product details
- ISBN 9781847011367
- Weight: 434g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Mar 2016
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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 Afro-European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. For Europeans, the export of agricultural produce represented a potential alternative to the slave trade from the outset and there was recurrent interest in establishing plantations in Africa or in purchasing crops from African producers. This idea 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.
Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History, University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History, University ofWorcester; Silke Strickrodt is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham.
