Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000351
Anne Ruderman, Marlous van Waijenburg
The revocation of the Royal African Company's (RAC) monopoly in 1698 inaugurated a transformation of the transatlantic slave trade. While the RAC's exit from the slave trade has received scholarly attention, little is known about the company's response to the loss of its trading privileges. Not only did the end of the company's monopoly increase competition, but the unprecedented numbers of private traders who entered the trade exacerbated the company's principal-agent problems on the West African coast. To analyze the company's behavior in the post-monopoly period, we exploit a series of 292 instruction letters that the RAC issued to its slave-ship captains between 1685 and 1706, coding each individual command in the letters. Our database reveals two new insights into the company's response to its upended competitive landscape. First, the RAC showed a remarkable degree of organizational flexibility, reacting to a heightened principal-agent problem. Second, its response was facilitated by the infrastructure of the transatlantic slave trade, which gave the company a monitoring mechanism by virtue of the slave-ship captains who continually sailed to the West African coast.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000557
Siobhan Talbott
War, Trade and the State: Anglo-Dutch Conflict, 1652–89. Edited by David Ormrod and Gijs Rommelse. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2020. 344 pp., 49 b/w illus. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-78327-324-9. - Volume 97 Issue 2
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000466
Jason M. Colby
The Silver Women: How Black Women's Labor Made the Panama Canal. By Joan Flores-Villalobos. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 296 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. ISBN: 978-1-5128-2363-9. - Volume 97 Issue 2
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000533
Adam Rothman
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World. By Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, and Carlos Venegas Fonias. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 176 pp., 10 x 9, 84 color plates, 1 map, 1 table, notes, bibl., index. Paperback, $29.95. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6312-8. - Volume 97 Issue 2
重建奴隶制的景观:19世纪大西洋世界种植园的视觉历史。作者:Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote和Carlos Venegas Fonias。教堂山:北卡罗来纳大学出版社，2021年。176页，10 x 9, 84色板，1张地图，1张表格，注释，圣经。、索引。平装,29.95美元。ISBN: 978-1-4696-6312-8。-第97卷第2期
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000685
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000338
Leigh Gardner
Recent debates on the economic history of the United States and other regions have revisited the question of the extent to which slavery and other forms of labor coercion contributed to the development of economic and political institutions. This article aims to bring Africa into this global debate, examining the contributions of slavery and coercion to periods of economic growth during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It argues that the coercion of labor in a variety of forms was a key part of African political economy, and thus when presented with opportunities for growth, elites turned first to the expansion of coerced labor. However, while labor coercion could help facilitate short-run growth, it also made the transition to sustained growth more difficult.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000582
Matthew David Mitchell
The care that David Richardson took, both in titling and in sub-titling his new book on Britain's transatlantic slave trade, is quite evident. This is not just a book on the abolition of Britain's slave trade, with a bit of material on Britain's previous conduct of its slave trade as a more or less unconnected prologue. This is a book about both things—“the British slave trade” and also “its abolition”—and it takes seriously the idea that the way in which the slave trade was ended had everything to do with how it had been conducted. And Richardson's presentation of both things bears out the double meaning of “principles/principals” in the before-the-colon title. The conduct of the slave trade, in his view, largely was an attempt to manage this particular manifestation of the classic “principal-agent” problem. Abolition, similarly, was a matter of principle, but the various sets of agents that carried it out related to that principle in diverse ways. Where Richardson shows these motivations for the political movement that eventually secured the Abolition Act in 1807, Mary Wills does so for the naval officers tasked with interdicting the transatlantic slave trade after that date, and Maeve Ryan does for the often self-interested agents of the Crown whose business was to resettle the Africans on captured slave ships within the bounds of the British Empire.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s000768052300048x
Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Slave Trade and Abolition: Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda. By Vanessa S. Oliveira. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. xii + 173 pp., figures, maps, tables, glossary, index. Cloth, $75.95. ISBN: 978-0-299-32580-0. - Volume 97 Issue 2
奴隶贸易和废除:罗安达的性别、商业和经济转型。Vanessa S. Oliveira著。麦迪逊:威斯康星大学出版社，2021年。Xii + 173页，图表，地图，表格，词汇表，索引。布,75.95美元。ISBN: 978-0-299-32580-0。-第97卷第2期
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000624
Mary E. Hicks
This article identifies new pathways for integrating African perspectives into debates about the historical relationship between slavery and capitalism. It focuses extensively on the work of African historian Joseph C. Miller (1939–2019), whose concept of “ethno political economics” combined ethnographic and quantitative data and offered a new perspective on Atlantic World history. Building on theorizations of early twentieth-century scholars W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, and others, Miller's analysis foregrounded the simultaneously local and global processes of credit expansion, commercialization, and labor exploitation as foundational to the consolidation of early modern capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1017/s0007680523000545
Espen Storli
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{"title":"Swansea Copper: A Global History. <i>By</i> Chris Evans and Louise Miskell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 242 pp. Hardcover, $57.00. ISBN: 978-1-4214-3911-2.","authors":"Espen Storli","doi":"10.1017/s0007680523000545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680523000545","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":9503,"journal":{"name":"Business History Review","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135700858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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