From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce
Anderson, David / Brown, Carolyn / Law, Robin![From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/980/9803958/CHSBZCOP039803958.jpg)
This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They...