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Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, I, 1 (1996).
Title: Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, I, 1 (1996).
Category: History
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Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, I, 1 (1996).
THE TRANSITION FROM THE SLAVE TRADETO 'LEGITIMATE' COMMERCE Robin Law(University of Stirling, Scotland) Abstract: This study reconsiders several controversies resulting from the historical debate over 'legitimate' trade--nineteenth-century exports of African commodities other than slaves--in West Africa. The controversies reviewed include the incidence of enslavement in West African warfare; whether slave prices fell as slave exports declined; whether slave trade and 'legitimate' trade were compatible or incompatible; the debate over A. G. Hopkins' thesis of a 'crisis of adaptation' among political leaders; the
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in the Bight of Biafra," Journal of African History, 17/3 (1976), 353-64. Reid, John, "Warrior Aristocrats in Crisis: The political effects of the transition from the slave trade to palm oil commerce in the nineteenth-century Kingdom of Dahomey" (Ph.D. thesis, University of Stirling, 1986). Ross, David, "The career of Domingo Martinez in the Bight of Benin 1833-64," Journal of African History, 6/1 (1965), 79-90. Smith, Robert S., The Lagos Consulate, 1851-1861 (London, 1978). Temperley, Howard, White Dreams, Black Africa: The Antislavery Expedition to the Niger, 1841-1842 (London, 1991). Wilks, Ivor, Asante in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 1975).
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