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Title:The Import of Firearms into West Africa, 1750-1807
Author:Inikori, Joseph E.ISNI
Year:1977
Periodical:The Journal of African History
Volume:18
Issue:3
Pages:339-368
Language:English
Geographic term:West Africa
Subjects:arms trade
history
1700-1799
1800-1899
History and Exploration
Military, Defense and Arms
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/180637
Abstract:This paper shed some light on the following questions: the quantities of firearms and ammunition annually imported into Africa over particular periods; their types and quality; the uses to which they were put; and the impact of those uses. The paper is geographically limited to the west coast of Africa from Senegambia to north of the River Congo. The time period covered is only the second half of the 18th and the first decade of the 19th centuries App., notes, tab.
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