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| Title: | Peanuts and Colonialism: Consequences of the Commercialization of Peanuts in West Africa, 1830-1870 |
| Author: | Brooks, George E. |
| Year: | 1975 |
| Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
| Volume: | 16 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 29-54 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | West Africa |
| Subjects: | groundnuts colonialism History and Exploration Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Economics and Trade |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181097 |
| Abstract: | This paper describes how 1) peanuts became the most important cash crop produced on the Upper Guinea Coast since before the middle of the. 19th century; 2) the structure of legitimate commerce marked an important break with the past and signified a new phase in the growth of the market; and 3) how the spread of peanut commercialization on the Upper Guinea Coast worked to the benefit of French and Senegalese traders in competition with British and Sierra Leonean rivals. Map, notes, table, summary. |
