Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550-1750 The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on an African Society

Name: Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550-1750 The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on an African Society
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ISBN: 9780198202288

ISBN-10: 0198202288

ISBN-13: 9780198202288

Edition: 1991

Authors: Robin Law

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This book studies the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the `Slave Coast' of West Africa, an area covering modern south-eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and south-western Nigeria. This region was one of the most important sources of slaves for the Atlantic slave trade, and its history provides an exceptionally well-documented illustration of the effect of the trade on the indigenous African societies involved in it. The expansion of slave exports during the seventeenth and earlyeighteenth centuries coincided with a period of political disorder, which ended with the rise of the new kingdom of Dahomey. Dahomey was a more militarized and more politically centralized state than those which…

Book details

List price: $210.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/28/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 388
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Robin Law is a professor of African history at the University of Stirling.



Country and people


Economy and society


Polity and ideology


The Atlantic slave trade, I: the development of European enterprise


The Atlantic slave trade, II: the operation and impact of the trade


The decline of Allada, 1671-1720


The rise of Dahomey 1720-1734


The consoldiation of Dahomey 1734-1750


Conclusion: 'God made war for all the world'