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Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, C. 1550- C. 1885

Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, C. 1550- C. 1885

Strickrodt, Silke

Hardcover

Series: Western Africa, Book 6

Business GeneralAfrican HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1847011101
ISBN13: 9781847011107
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Feb 19 2015
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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.

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