Plateau Tonga Entrepreneurs in Historical Inter-Regional Trade

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Title:	Plateau Tonga Entrepreneurs in Historical Inter-Regional Trade
Author:	Miracle, Marvin P.
Year:	1959
Periodical:	Rhodes-Livingstone Journal
Volume:	26
Period:	December
Pages:	34-50
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zambia
Subjects:	Tonga (Zambia, Zimbabwe) international trade Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration
Abstract:	This article presents evidence based largely on data supplied by 74 informants between July 29 and September 10, 1959, all of whom claimed to be old enough to remember that happened before European rule (roughly prior to 1900). It is hypothesized that European penetration and settlement created a body of unemployed Tonga traders who found the only means open to them of supplementing their income was working in the mines, for European merchants, or on European farms with the coming of European traders, in the late 19th century the traditional inter-regional trade of the Plateau Tonga was reduced to a trickle, but revived with the development of a market for the Copperbelt population areas. Led by frustrated entrepreneurs Tonga accepted a radically different technique of agriculture in this period. Bibliography, map.