Robin Law, Suzanne Schwarz, Silke Strickrodt

Introduction
The slave trade and commercial agriculture in an African context - David Eltis
São Tomé and Príncipe: The first plantation economy in the tropics - Gerhard Seibert
The export of rice and millet from Upper Guinea into the 16th-century Atlantic trade - Toby Green
'Our indico designe': Planting and processing indigo for export, Upper Guinea coast, 1684-1702 - Colleen E Kriger
'There's nothing grows in the West Indies but will grow here': European projects of plantation agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1650s-1780s - Robin Law
The origins of 'legitimate commerce' - Christopher Brown
Friederichsnopel: A Danish project of commercial agriculture on the Gold Coast, 1788-1793 - Per Hernaes
'The Colony has made no progress in agriculture': Contested perceptions of agriculture in the colonies of Sierra Leone and Liberia - Bronwen Everill
Church Missionary Society projects of agricultural improvement in the 19th century: Sierra Leone and Yorubaland - Kehinde Olabimtan
Agricultural enterprise and unfree labour in 19th-century Angola - Roquinaldo Ferreira
Commercial agriculture and the ending of slave-trading and slavery in West Africa, 1780s-1920s - Gareth Austin