GARETH AUSTIN is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge. He taught at the University of Ghana, 1982-85.

The ideas put forward in this volume open a new set of research questions in African History and will inspire further comparative analyses across time and space.

• IntroductionThe slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context - David EltisSão Tomé and Príncipe: The first plantation economy in the tropics - Gerhard SeibertThe export of rice and millet from Upper Guinea into the 16th-century Atlantic trade - Toby Green'Our indico designe': Planting and processing indigo for export, Upper Guinea coast, 1684-1702 - Colleen E Kriger'There's nothing grows in the West Indies but will grow here': European projects of plantation agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1650s-1780s - Robin LawThe origins of 'legitimate commerce' - Christopher BrownFriederichsnopel: A Danish project of commercial agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1788-1793 - Per Hernaes'The Colony has made no progress in agriculture': Contested perceptions of agriculture in the colonies of Sierra Leone and Liberia - Bronwen EverillChurch Missionary Society projects of agricultural improvement in the 19th century: Sierra Leone and Yorubaland - Kehinde OlabimtanAgricultural enterprise and unfree labour in 19th-century Angola - Roquinaldo FerreiraCommercial agriculture and the ending of slave-trading and slavery in West Africa, 1780s-1920s - Gareth Austin

GARETH AUSTIN is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge. He taught at the University of Ghana, 1982-85.

The ideas put forward in this volume open a new set of research questions in African History and will inspire further comparative analyses across time and space.

• IntroductionThe slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context - David EltisSão Tomé and Príncipe: The first plantation economy in the tropics - Gerhard SeibertThe export of rice and millet from Upper Guinea into the 16th-century Atlantic trade - Toby Green'Our indico designe': Planting and processing indigo for export, Upper Guinea coast, 1684-1702 - Colleen E Kriger'There's nothing grows in the West Indies but will grow here': European projects of plantation agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1650s-1780s - Robin LawThe origins of 'legitimate commerce' - Christopher BrownFriederichsnopel: A Danish project of commercial agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1788-1793 - Per Hernaes'The Colony has made no progress in agriculture': Contested perceptions of agriculture in the colonies of Sierra Leone and Liberia - Bronwen EverillChurch Missionary Society projects of agricultural improvement in the 19th century: Sierra Leone and Yorubaland - Kehinde OlabimtanAgricultural enterprise and unfree labour in 19th-century Angola - Roquinaldo FerreiraCommercial agriculture and the ending of slave-trading and slavery in West Africa, 1780s-1920s - Gareth Austin

GARETH AUSTIN is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge. He taught at the University of Ghana, 1982-85.

The ideas put forward in this volume open a new set of research questions in African History and will inspire further comparative analyses across time and space.

• IntroductionThe slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context - David EltisSão Tomé and Príncipe: The first plantation economy in the tropics - Gerhard SeibertThe export of rice and millet from Upper Guinea into the 16th-century Atlantic trade - Toby Green'Our indico designe': Planting and processing indigo for export, Upper Guinea coast, 1684-1702 - Colleen E Kriger'There's nothing grows in the West Indies but will grow here': European projects of plantation agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1650s-1780s - Robin LawThe origins of 'legitimate commerce' - Christopher BrownFriederichsnopel: A Danish project of commercial agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1788-1793 - Per Hernaes'The Colony has made no progress in agriculture': Contested perceptions of agriculture in the colonies of Sierra Leone and Liberia - Bronwen EverillChurch Missionary Society projects of agricultural improvement in the 19th century: Sierra Leone and Yorubaland - Kehinde OlabimtanAgricultural enterprise and unfree labour in 19th-century Angola - Roquinaldo FerreiraCommercial agriculture and the ending of slave-trading and slavery in West Africa, 1780s-1920s - Gareth Austin