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Title:The role of slave labor in groundnut production in early colonial Kano
Author:Salau, Mohammed BashirISNI
Year:2010
Periodical:The Journal of African History (ISSN 0021-8537)
Volume:51
Issue:2
Pages:147-165
Language:English
Geographic terms:Nigeria
Northern Nigeria
Subjects:slavery
groundnuts
colonial economy
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/40985068
Abstract:This article reinforces the interpretation of numerous scholars who have highlighted the role of slave labour in groundnut production during the 'cash-crop revolution' in West Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It also expands Jan Hogendorn's argument on the African initiatives involved in the expansion of groundnut production in colonial Northern Nigeria. In particular, it provides evidence of the key role of the emir of Kano (Abbas) and important merchants in the transition to groundnut cultivation and the significant use of slave labour by these large estate-holders. The article focuses mainly on the Fanisau unit of Kano. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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