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Title: | Iles de Los as bulking center in the slave trade 1750-1800 |
Author: | Mouser, Bruce L. |
Year: | 1996 |
Periodical: | Revue française d'histoire d'outre-mer |
Volume: | 83 |
Issue: | 313 |
Pages: | 77-90 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Guinea |
Subjects: | slave trade mercantile history |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.3406/outre.1996.3483 |
Abstract: | In the history of the slave trade, certain islands located off Africa's shore served as warehousing or bulking centres, providing trade goods to merchants in local markets and in those located as far as a hundred kilometres distant. This paper addresses the characteristics which enabled such bulking centres to exist and focuses specifically on the conditions that made the Iles de Los, located near Conakry (Guinea), an important entrepot of commerce during the last half of the 18th century. Among the most important prerequisites for commercial success were the availability of natural resources, a strategic and accessible position vis-à-vis sources of slaves and European buyers, a well-defined system of commerce within the community of traders, and the presence of friendly landlords who might profit from rents and duties and who sometimes participated in commerce as traders themselves. All of these prerequisites were present on the Iles de Los between 1750 and 1800. Notes, ref., sum. in English and French. |