This vivid account of the rise of the remarkable slave and palm oil trading states in the Niger Delta in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also analyzes the relationship of political development to economic change. The author's field studies among the Ijo, Ibibio, and Ibo peoples have made possible analysis of the essential processes of economic and political transformation that lay behind oral traditions. There are also detailed and often lively accounts of European traders of the period.
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