A new climatic periodisation of the Gold and Guinea coasts in West Africa, 1750-1798
Subtitle: a reconstruction of the climate during the slave trade era, including an analysis of the climatically facilitated trans-Atlantic slave trade
By: Stefan Norrgård
Publisher: Åbo Akademi University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Åbo, Finland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789517656924; 9789517656931
Subjects: Slave trade; History; Climate
Notes: Added thesis title page inserted.

Accompanied with corrigenda.

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Åbo Akademi, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-223).

Also available online.

Text in English with Swedish summary.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The West African climate and its past; title: A climatic chronology of the Guinea coast, 1750 to 1798; title: The Royal Navy at Cape Coast Castle; title: A climatically facilitated slave trade; title: Conclusions.