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Provisioning The Slave Trade

The Supply of Corn on the Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast

ROBIN LAW
African Economic History, November 2018, 46 (1) 1-35; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.46.1.1
ROBIN LAW
Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History at the University of Stirling, Scotland; a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; author/editor of several volumes on precolonial West African history, including The Slave Coast of West Africa 1550–1750 (1991), From Slave Trade to “Legitimate” Commerce: The commercial transition in nineteenth-century West Africa (1995), and Ouidah: The social history of a West African slaving “port,” 1727–1892 (2004); and a former Editor of the Journal of African History. E-mail: .
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The article studies the supply of corn (maize) by African societies for the provisioning of European slave-ships on the Gold Coast, focusing on one particular community, the Fante, in the late seventeenth century. Its principal evidential basis is the local correspondence of the English Royal African Company between 1681–99, recently published by the author. Aspects addressed include: the scale of the trade; its relation to the cycle of local agricultural production; the transportation of corn from the interior, and by sea along the coast; the identity of the African suppliers; the determination of prices; and the significance of the trade for the long-term growth of the domestic economy.

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African Economic History Nov 2018, 46 (1) 1-35; DOI: 10.3368/aeh.46.1.1

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