Book ID: CBB001422242

Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa (2013)

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Law, Robin (Editor)
Suzanne, Schwarz (Editor)
Silke, Strickrodt (Editor)


Boydell & Brewer


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: 288 pp.
Language: English

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 European maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops, there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them from independent 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. At the same time, the slave trade itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved labour, so that slavery in Africa persisted into the colonial period.

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Authors & Contributors
Giuliano Pinto
Sluyter, Andrew
Alberto Malvolti
Anna Maria Pult
Anja Timmermann
Marsh, Ben
Concepts
Agriculture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Trade
Environmental history
Colonialism
Labor and laborers
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
16th century
Early modern
15th century
Places
Atlantic world
Africa
Italy
Europe
Tuscany (Italy)
China
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