The Two Quilengues and the Baculamento Taxation System: Colonial Dispossession, the Law, and the Plantationocene in Late Eighteenth-Century West Central Africa

Esteban Salas

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The Two Quilengues and the Baculamento Taxation System

Colonial Dispossession, the Law, and the Plantationocene in Late Eighteenth-Century West Central Africa

Esteban Salas

African Economic History, March 2026, 53 (2) 50-73; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.2.50

Esteban Salas

Esteban Salas is Lecturer in African History in the Department of History and School of History, Religions and Philosophies at SOAS University of London. He holds a PhD in African history from the University of Notre Dame.

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