Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World by Silke Strickrodt

Author:Silke Strickrodt [Strickrodt, Silke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Economic Conditions, History, Africa
ISBN: 9781787441064
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

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The era of the traders

1772 to c. 1807

For the period from 1772 to the abolition of the slave trade there is an exceptional abundance of documentation on the events on the western Slave Coast, which reflects its increasing importance in Afro-European trade. The region’s rise in the trade had important repercussions for the communities there, shifting the power balance between the Ge king at Glidji and (African) traders in the coastal settlements in favour of the latter. This was the era of the traders, most importantly Lattie (d.1795), whose commercial success, new wealth and power was symbolised by the new, multi-storey houses that began to appear in the coastal settlement.

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