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N2  - The small Slave Coast between the river Volta & Lagos, & its central part around Ouidah, was the epicentre of the slave trade in West Africa. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers & devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, this small coastline witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relationship between Europeans & Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about? How was it all organized?
AB  - The small Slave Coast between the river Volta & Lagos, & its central part around Ouidah, was the epicentre of the slave trade in West Africa. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers & devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily accessible from the interior due to a lagoon which ran parallel to the coast. The local inhabitants were not only sheltered against incursions from the sea, but were also locked off from it. Yet, paradoxically, this small coastline witnessed a thriving long-term commercial relationship between Europeans & Africans, based on the trans-Atlantic slave trade. How did it come about? How was it all organized?
T1  - Slave traders by invitation :West Africa's slave coast in the precolonial era /
AU  - Fuglestad, Finn,
CN  - Oxford Scholarship Online
CN  - HT1332
ID  - 857730
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Slave traders
KW  - Slave traders
SN  - 9780190943110
TI  - Slave traders by invitation :West Africa's slave coast in the precolonial era /
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190876104.001.0001
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