Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic Africa Law Schwarz

Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade & Slavery in Atlantic AfricaAuthor(s): Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz, Silke Strickrodt, Bronwen Everill, Christopher Brown, Colleen E Kriger, David Eltis, Gareth Austin, Gerhard Seibert, Kehinde Olabimtan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: James Currey, United Kingdom\nImprint: James Currey\nISBN-13: 9781847010759, 978-1847010759\nSynopsis\nRe-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to slavery.\n\nThis 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 theearly stages of colonial rule in the twentieth century.\n\nFrom the outset, the export of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential alternative to the slave trade.