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09/23/2010 - 09/25/2010 | London

Commercial Agriculture in Africa as an Alternative to the Slave Trade

By the mid nineteenth century the view that ‘legitimate’ commerce, especially the export of agricultural produce, would help to eradicate the Atlantic slave trade and bring mutual benefits to Britain and Africa had become a central tenet of mainstream abolitionist thought. As A. G. Hopkins has suggested, the attempt to establish export agriculture in Africa was part of British efforts to reform the international economic order after 1815 and represented ‘Britain’s first development plan for Africa’. Recent scholarly literature has explored the impact of the development of legitimate forms of trade on African economy and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Comparatively little attention has been given, however, to earlier attempts to develop commercial crop cultivation and alternative forms of trade with Africa. By focusing on the period from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, this conference will explore the ways in which different interest groups and individuals attempted to exploit the natural resources of Africa through diverse agricultural and trading systems.

Information on participating / attending:

Date:

09/23/2010 09:30 - 09/25/2010 13:30

Event venue:

German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
WC1A 2NJ London
United Kingdom

Target group:

Scientists and scholars

Email address:

strickrodt@ghil.ac.uk

Relevance:

international

Subject areas:

Economics / business administration, History / archaeology, Politics

Types of events:

Entry:

08/19/2010

Sender/author:

Gesche Schifferdecker

Department:

Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Stiftung Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland

Event is free:

no

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event32203

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