Author: Newbury, C. W. (Colin Walter)
Title: The Western Slave Coast and Its Rulers: European Trade and Administration among the Yoruba and Adja-speaking Peoples ..,.
Description: Oxford, Clarendon Press, (1966). orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, ix,234 pp. In a rubbed & stained dustwrapper. Some light stains to binding.. Folding map.. Minor rubbing. Some light stains to top page-edge. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "The Western Slave Coast and Its Rulers: European Trade and Administration among the Yoruba and Adja-speaking Peoples of South- western Nigeria, Southern Dahomey and Togo". Contents: European contact & the rise of the Abomey kingdom; The decline of the slave trade; European intervention at Lagos and Porto-Novo; The administration of Lagos Colony & the Western District, 1866-86; French & German interests; The establishment of the Fon and Yoruba Protectorates; Trade, agriculture & colonial finance; The search for formulas; Appendices.

Keywords: African Colonial History, West Africa, Nigeria, Slave Trade, Slavery, Colonialism, Colony Colonies, Economic,