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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Commodities, Customs, and the Computer |
Author: | Johnson, Marion |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | History in Africa |
Volume: | 11 |
Pages: | 359-366 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Great Britain Africa |
Subjects: | tariffs mercantile history History and Exploration Economics and Trade Bibliography/Research |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3171642 |
Abstract: | Among the various sources of information about the Africa of the Slave Trade era, one of the more voluminous and detailed is the great series of English Customs records held at the Public Record Office in London under CUST 3 and CUST 17. The Customs records are concerned with the trade of England (later of Great Britain), with imports into England and exports and re-exports from England - so slaves themselves do not appear in the CUST 3 or COST 17 records. The great detail of the English Customs records makes them hard to handle. Since the figures for the African trade are so voluminous, the only practical way to handle them is by computer. Little work of this kind has been attempted previously. The author has undertaken a feasibility study, putting the entire records of the English African trade from 1699 to 1808 into machine-readable form. Motes. |