Trans-Saharan Trade and its Logics of Accommodation in Relation to Transatlatic Trade Between the 15th and the 19th Centuries

Abstract

Between the 14^th and the 15^th centuries, Portugal and Spain came up with the technological and pre-capitalistic conditions, which will allow them to initiate the Atlantic opening and the establishment of transatlantic trade. In the wake of this new economic order, trans-Saharan trade is going to adapt, through different accommodation methods, which will intensify and become more complex until the 19^th century. This paper identifies and studies these different accommodation methods thanks to an historiographical analysis: superimposition of commercial trades, birth of religious circuits, collection of new commercial products, signature of new treaties, initiation of shurbubba movement

Keywords
trans-Saharan trade; transatlantic trade; accommodation