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The slave coast of West Africa, 1550-1750: the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on an African society

Law, Robin.

Year: 1991.

Publisher: Clarendon Press.

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Frontmatter

List of Maps and Table

Abbreviations

Note on Dates

Introduction: Historiography and Sources

1. Country and People

2. Economy and Society

3. Polity and Ideology

4. Atlantic Slave Trade, I: The Development of European Enterprise

5. The Atlantic Slave Trade, II: The Operation and Impact of the Trade

6. The Decline of Allada, 1671-1720

7. The Rise of Dahomey, 1720-1734

8. The Consolidation of Dahomey, 1734-1750

Conclusion: 'God Made War for All the World'

Bibliography

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Title:

The slave coast of West Africa, 1550-1750 : the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on an African society Robin Law.

Author:

Law, Robin

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The slave coast of West Africa, 1550-1750 : the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on an African society Robin Law.
Law, Robin
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.

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Subject Headings:

• Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History
• Benin -- History -- To 1894
• Africa, West -- History -- To 1884

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