Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History: The Institutional Foundations of the Old Calabar Slave Trade

• Published in: The American historical review Vol. 104; no. 2; pp. 333 - 355
• Main Authors: Lovejoy, P E, Richardson, D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England American Historical Association 01.04.1999; American Historical Association, etc; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: African Continental Ancestry Group - education; African Continental Ancestry Group - ethnology; African Continental Ancestry Group - history; African Continental Ancestry Group - legislation & jurisprudence; African Continental Ancestry Group - psychology; African history; Bays; Commercial credit; Credit; Economics; Economics - history; Economics - legislation & jurisprudence; Ethnic Groups - education; Ethnic Groups - ethnology; Ethnic Groups - history; Ethnic Groups - legislation & jurisprudence; Ethnic Groups - psychology; European Continental Ancestry Group - education; European Continental Ancestry Group - ethnology; European Continental Ancestry Group - history; European Continental Ancestry Group - legislation & jurisprudence; European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology; History; History of medicine; History, 18th Century; Humans; Industrialization; International trade; Lace; Merchants; Minority Groups - education; Minority Groups - history; Minority Groups - legislation & jurisprudence; Minority Groups - psychology; Minority Health - economics; Minority Health - ethnology; Minority Health - history; Minority Health - legislation & jurisprudence; Nigeria - ethnology; Political history; Politics; Prejudice; Race Relations - history; Race Relations - legislation & jurisprudence; Race Relations - psychology; Slave trade; Slavery; Slaves; Social Conditions - economics; Social Conditions - history; Social Conditions - legislation & jurisprudence; Social Control Policies - economics; Social Control Policies - history; Social Control Policies - legislation & jurisprudence; Social history; Social Problems - economics; Social Problems - ethnology; Social Problems - history; Social Problems - legislation & jurisprudence; Social Problems - psychology; Trade; Trade development; United Kingdom - ethnology; United Kingdom; UK; Bight of Biafra
• ISSN: 0002-8762; 1937-5239
• DOI: 10.2307/2650369

Lovejoy and Richardson argue that British commercial relations with Old Calabar in the hundred years after the middle of the 18th century were a story of evolving institutional adjustments to changing economic and political parameters of trade.