Customs and the Slave Trade Economy in Senegambia: A History of Taxation from the Slave Era to the Colonial Conquest (Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries)

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, from the era of the Atlantic slave trade to colonial conquest, the trade economy of Senegambia underwent two major phases: the slave trade (seventeenth to early nineteenth century) and the so-called “legitimate” commerce (early nineteenth century). From the seventeenth century onward, European trading companies established themselves along the Senegambian coast with the consent of local rulers, who granted them the right to build forts, trad...