Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2013
Department
Department of Social Sciences
Abstract
Throughout the nineteenth century, the American South was the world’s leading producer of raw cotton. European — especially British — textile firms used American cotton to supply the world with cheap manufactured cloth. The African continent was on the periphery of this transatlantic circuit: forced into slavery and transported to the Americas, African peoples supplied much of the agricultural labour on which the cotton industry rested, but the African continent itself remained isolated from the expanding reach of the ‘empire of cotton’.
Publication Title
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
ISBN
978-1-137-28360-3
Recommended Citation
Robins, J.
(2013).
Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market: Cotton in Britain’s African Empire.
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions, 100-120.
http://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283603_6
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/michigantech-p/16073