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The Organization of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Yorubaland, ca.1777 to ca.1856*
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The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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January 1, 2008
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Yorubaland was one of the most important slave-exporting regions in Africa during the nineteenth century, second only to Central Africa. Enslaved Yoruba were distributed widely throughout the Atlantic world, with the largest groups found in Sierra Leone, Cuba, Brazil, and Trinidad. The impact of slavery, and its centrality to the Yoruba economy and society, has attracted substantial scholarship over the years.1 However, whereas details of the commercial organization of the Atlantic slave trade (e.g., traders and trading systems, trade networks, port management, and funding of the slave trade) are generally known for the Windward Coast, Asante, Igbo, Dahomey, Niger Delta, and Central African ...