num_pages: 292
description: This edited collection, written by leading specialists, deals with nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and development of alternative forms of "legitimate" trade. Approaching the subject from an African perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved, and provide new insights into the history of precolonial Africa and the slave trade, origins of European imperialism, and longer term issues of economic development in Africa.
language: English
title: From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa
titlecomplete: From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa (African Studies, Series Number 86)
genres: Africa, History
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Cambridge University Press