Commercial transitions and abolition in West Africa 1630-1860 /by Angus Dalrymple-Smith.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630-1860 by Angus Dalrymple-Smith offers a fresh perspective on why the most important West African states and merchants who traded with Atlantic markets became exporters of commodities instead of slaves in the nineteenth century. This study takes a long-term comparative approach and makes of use of new quantitative data. It argues that the timing and nature of the change from slave exports to so-called 'legitimate commerce' in the Gold Coast, the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin, can be predicted by patterns of trade established in previous centuries by a range of African and European actors responding to the changing political and economic environments of the Atlantic world"--

Intro; Commercial Transitions and Abolition in West Africa 1630-1860; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; List of Appendices; Introduction: Historiography of the Commercial Transition; 1 From Slaves to 'Legitimate Commerce' Different Places, Different Times; 2 West African Trade with the Atlantic World; 3 Accounting for Regional Differences; 3.1 Shared Factors that cannot Explain Regional Variation in the Commercial Transition; 3.2 British Slave Trade Patrols; 3.3 Changing Demand for, or Changing Supply of, African Slaves

3.4 Factors that may Explain Regional Variation in the Commercial Transition4 Organisation; Part 1: Trends in the (Non-Slave) Trade With West Africa Over the Eighteenth Century; 1 Regional Patterns of (Non-Slave) Trade in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century; 1 The Commodity Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century; 2 Trade in Africa in the Eighteenth Century; 2 Commercial Agriculture and Slave Ship Provisioning 1680-1800; 1 Did the Transatlantic Slave Trade Boost West African Commercial Agriculture?; 2 Main Results; 3 Changing Relative Prices and Trade Risks

4 Revised Estimates of West African Food Exports, 1681-18075 Why did British Provisioning Strategies Differ and what were the Impacts on Different Regions?; Appendices; 3 The Transatlantic Slave and Commodity Trades in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century; 1 Measuring the Volume and Value of the Commodity Trade; 1.1 Real Value of Trade; 1.2 Regional Origin of Different Products; 2 Real Value and Structure of West Africa's Commodity Trade; 2.1 European Demand; 3 Regional Trade; 3.1 The Bight of Biafra; 3.2 The Gold Coast; 3.3 The Bight of Benin; 4 Market Exchange and the Slave Trade

AppendicesPart 2: The Long-term Roots of the Commercial Transitions: Case Studies; 4 The Gold Coast: Gold, Wealth and Power Amongst the Akans; 1 Area of study; 2 Long-term Trade Contacts; 3 A New Interpretation of the Impact of Abolition; 4 Economic and Political Considerations in 1808; 4.1 The Financial Cost of Abolition; 4.2 Asante and Regional Hegemony; 4.3 Outsiders as Slaves; 5 Gold and the Asante State; 6 Household Labour Decisions; Appendices; Appendix 4.2b Sources on Asante Population; 5 The Bight of Biafra: From Export Slavery to Slave Production; 1 Area of Study; 2 External Trade

3 The Value of the Commodity Trade and 'comey'4 Britain and Palm Oil Trading; 5 Institutional Development in Biafra; 6 The Demand for Labour and the Internal Slave Trade; 7 Household Production of Palm Oil; Appendices; 6 The Bight of Benin: Dahomey and the Dominance of Export Slavery; 1 Area of Study; 2 Long-term Trends in Dahomey's Trade; 3 Comparative Value of the Slave and Commodity Trades; 4 Trading Partners; 5 Dahomean Militarism; 5.1 The Seventeenth-century Roots of the Dahomean Military State; 5.2 Regional Politics and the Maintenance of Militarism; 5.3 Militarism and Elite Power

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