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

Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History: The Institutional Foundations of the Old Calabar Slave Trade Paul E. Lovejoy, Paul E. Lovejoy Distinguished Research Professor of History York University, Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Richardson David Richardson professor of economic history and Deputy-Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences University of Hull, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His books include Caravans of Kola: The Hausa Kola Trade, 1700–1900 (1980), Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa (1983), Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan (1986), and (with Jan Hogendorn), Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897–1936 (1993), which received the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. He has also edited or co-edited another ten books. Lovejoy is currently working on the interconnections between West Africa and the Americas during the era of the slave trade. He is the author of numerous articles on the Atlantic slave trade and its impact on Europe, Africa, and the Americas, editor of a four-volume study of Bristol slave voyages (1986–96), and co-author of The Atlantic Slave Trade 1527–1867: A Database (1999). The article published here arises from an ongoing study with Paul Lovejoy on the slave trade and socioeconomic change in the Bight of Biafra circa 1660–1840. Author Notes The American Historical Review, Volume 104, Issue 2, April 1999, Pages 332–355, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/104.2.332 Published: 01 April 1999