The History Of “legitimate Trade” Among The Yoruba’s

PROPOSAL INTRODUCTIONThe abolition of slave trade in 1807 by the Houses of Parliament in London which enacted legislation prohibiting British subject from participating in the slave trade. The French who had already abolished slave trade after the French Revolution, although she later re-established it in her Caribbean states in 1803. But by the end of the Napoleonic wars, both the French and the British had purchased a majority of the slaves sold from the ports of Oyo.The end of European trading in slaves left a need for commerce between Europe and Africa (Yoruba) capitalist may have seen the…