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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The Volta River Salt Trade: The Survival of an Indigenous Industry |
Author: | Sutton, I.B. |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 43-61 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | mercantile history salt industry History and Exploration Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/182151 |
Abstract: | The salt extraction industry of Ada, at the mouth of the Volta river, Ghana, is an example of a traditional industry which did not decline or die out in the 19th and 20th centuries under the impact of mass-produced imported goods. This article describes the salt industry and trade in the two centuries and the failed attempts by the British to regulate the trade. Fig., notes, sum. |