Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Slavery and Freedom in the Early Modern World
- Chapter 2 The English, the Dutch, and Transoceanic Migration
- Chapter 3 Europeans and African Slavery in the Americas
- Chapter 4 Gender and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- Chapter 5 Productivity in the Slave Trade
- Chapter 6 Africa and Europe in the Early Modern Era
- Chapter 7 The African Impact on the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Chapter 8 The English Plantation Americas in Comparative Perspective
- Chapter 9 Ethnicity in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- Chapter 10 Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems
- Epilogue on Abolition
- Appendices
- A The Age and Sex of Africans in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1663–1713
- B Slave-Price Appendix
- C Merchandise Imported to West Africa, 1662–1713
- D Valuations of Produce Exports from the Leeward Islands in 1700
- Maps
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
C - Merchandise Imported to West Africa, 1662–1713
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Slavery and Freedom in the Early Modern World
- Chapter 2 The English, the Dutch, and Transoceanic Migration
- Chapter 3 Europeans and African Slavery in the Americas
- Chapter 4 Gender and Slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- Chapter 5 Productivity in the Slave Trade
- Chapter 6 Africa and Europe in the Early Modern Era
- Chapter 7 The African Impact on the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Chapter 8 The English Plantation Americas in Comparative Perspective
- Chapter 9 Ethnicity in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- Chapter 10 Europe and the Atlantic Slave Systems
- Epilogue on Abolition
- Appendices
- A The Age and Sex of Africans in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1663–1713
- B Slave-Price Appendix
- C Merchandise Imported to West Africa, 1662–1713
- D Valuations of Produce Exports from the Leeward Islands in 1700
- Maps
- Sources and Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The basic source for African imports used here is an invoice book of cargoes carried to Africa on the vessels of the Royal Company of Adventurers and its successor organization, the Royal African Company. This is the same source and database used for the slave price data. All these ships departed from London. A description of the data set is included below in the sources. A summary of the cargoes in constant pounds broken down by African region of embarkation is shown in Table C-1.
This summary does not reflect all merchandise arriving in Africa from the Atlantic world, nor even all the merchandise carried by the vessels of these companies. Between 1666 and 1713, records exist of nearly two hundred ships that sailed to Africa from the Caribbean rather than from Europe and many of them belonged to the Royal African Company. Almost all these ships carried rum, most of them from Barbados. Out of every ten ships, about seven went to the Gold Coast, two to the Gambia, and one to the Slave Coast, though in the latter case the rum was probably disembarked at Cape Coast Castle on the Gold Coast, before the ship proceeded to Whydah for slaves. The trade began in the late 1670s, with about two ships a year involved on average to 1698. Thereafter the volume quadrupled to ten ships a year.
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- The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas , pp. 299 - 302Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999