The Western Slave Coast, c. 1550- c. 1885
by
Silke Strickrodt
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
From 1550 to colonial partition in the mid-1880s, trade was key to Afro-European relations on the western Slave Coast (the coastal areas of modern Togo and parts of what are now Ghana and Benin). This book looks at the commercial relations of two states which played a crucial role in the Atlantic...