The small but important region of Dahomey (now the People's Republic of Benin) has played an active role in the world economy throughout the era of mercantile and industrial capitalism, beginning as an exporter of slaves and becoming an exporter of plain oil and palm kernels. This book covers a span of three centuries, integrating into a single framework the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial economic history of Dahomey. Mr Manning has pieced together an extensive body of new evidence and new interpretations: he has combined descriptive evidence with quantitative data on foreign trade, slave demography and colonial government finance, and has used both Marxian and Neoclassical techniques of economic analysis. He argues that, despite the severe strain on population and economic growth caused by the slave trade, the economy continued to expand from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and the colonial state acted as an economic depressant rather than a stimulant.
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Dahomey has played an active role in the world economy throughout the era of mercantile and industrial capitalism, beginning as an exporter of slaves and becoming an exporter of plain oil and palm kernels. This book integrates into a single framework the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial economic history of Dahomey.
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The Bight of Benin came to the attention of the wider world in the late seventeenth century as it became the leading supplier of slaves for the plantations of the New World.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bight of Benin, Grand Popo, World War, West African, Government General, New World, Administrative Council, Eastern Voltaic, Pierre Johnson, Jean Adjovi, Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Afrique Occidentale, Superior Council, Catholic Church, Akanwanou Adjovi, Justin Aho, National Assembly, Richard Johnson, Sokoto Caliphate, Free French, Little Popo, Blaise Diagne, Domingo Martins, Germain Crespin New!
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The Bight of Benin came to the attention of the wider world in the late seventeenth century as it became the leading supplier of slaves for the plantations of the New World.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bight of Benin, Grand Popo, World War, West African, Government General, New World, Administrative Council, Eastern Voltaic, Pierre Johnson, Jean Adjovi, Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Afrique Occidentale, Superior Council, Catholic Church, Akanwanou Adjovi, Justin Aho, National Assembly, Richard Johnson, Sokoto Caliphate, Free French, Little Popo, Blaise Diagne, Domingo Martins, Germain Crespin New!
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- African History: From Earliest Times to Independence by Philip Curtin on 6 pages
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census by Philip D. Curtin on 4 pages
- History of West Africa, Vol. 1 by J. F. Ade Ajayi in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies (Quantitative studies in history) by Stanley Engerman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Trade and Market in the Early Empires by Rosemary Arnold in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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