Provisioning The Slave Trade

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: .