Law: From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce. The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. Paperback 
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• From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce. The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa. Paperback
• Edited by Robin Law
• 291 pages. 2002. This edited collection examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of ‘legitimate’ trade, mainly in vegetable products. ....

Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant new insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa