THE TRANSITION FROM THE SLAVE TRADETO 'LEGITIMATE' COMMERCE Robin Law(University of Stirling, Scotland) Abstract: This study reconsiders several controversies resulting from the historical debate over 'legitimate' trade--nineteenth-century exports of African commodities other than slaves--in West Africa. The controversies reviewed include the incidence of enslavement in West African warfare; whether slave prices fell as slave exports declined; whether slave trade and 'legitimate' trade were compatible or incompatible; the debate over A. G. Hopkins' thesis of …showed first 75 words of 6691 total…

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