Melissa, you can start with the following works in English.
 
 
I. A. Akinjogbin, Dahomey and its Neighbours 1708-1818. London,
1967
 
Stanley B. Alpern, "What Africans Got for Their Slaves: A Master
List of European Trade Goods," History in Africa. Vol. 22, 1995,
pp. 5-43.
 
Jay Coughtry, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African
Slave Trade 1700-1807. Philadelphia, 1981.
 
Philip D. Curtin, Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia
in the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison, 1975.
 
Kwame Y. Daaku, Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast, 1600-1720: A
Study of the African Reaction to European Trade. Oxford, 1970.
 
K. G. Davies, The Royal African Company. New York, 1970.
 
K. Onwuka Dike, Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta, 1830-1885:
An Introduction to the Economic and Political History of Nigeria.
London, 1956.
 
David Eltis and Lawrence C. Jennings, "Trade between Western Africa
and the Atlantic World in the Precolonial Era," American Historical
Review, Vol. 93, 1988, pp. 936-959.
 
Adam Jones, ed., Brandenburg Sources for West African History 1680-
1700. Stuttgart, 1985.
 
Robin Law, The Oyo Empire c. 1600-1836: A West African Imperialism
in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Oxford, 1977.
 
idem, The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550- 1750: The Impact of the
Atlantic Slave Trade on an African Society. Oxford, 1991.
 
John J. McCusker, "The Rum Trade and the Balance of Payments of the
Thirteen Colonies," Unpublished Ph. D. Dissertation, University of
Pittsburgh, 1970.
 
George Metcalfe, "A Microcosm of Why Africans Sold Slaves: Akan
Consumption Patterns in the 1770s," Journal of African History.
Vol. 28, 1987, pp.
 
Colin W. Newbury, The Western Slave Coast and its Rulers: European
Trade and Administration among the Yoruba and Adja-speaking Peoples
of South-Western Nigeria, Southern Dahomey and Togo. London, 1961.
 
Karl Polanyi (in collaboration with Abraham Rotstein), Dahomey and
the Slave Trade: An Analysis of an Archaic Economy. Seattle, 1966.
 
Johannes M. Postma, The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-
1815. Cambridge, 1990.
 
James A. Rawley, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History. New
York, 1981.
 
David Richardson, "West African Consumption Patterns and Their
Influence on the Eighteenth-Century English Slave Trade," in Henry
A. Gemery and Jan S. Hogendorn, eds. The Uncommon Market: Essays in
the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade. New York, 1979.
 
Walter Rodney, A History of the Upper Guinea Coast, 1545 to 1800.
New York, 1980.
 
Allen F. C. Ryder, Benin and the Europeans, 1485-1897. New York,
1969.
 
James F. Searing, West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The
Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860. Cambridge, 1994.
 
Pierre Verger, Trade Relations Between the Bight of Benin and Bahia
from the 17th to the 19th Century. Ibadan, 1976.
 
There is also an important review essay of Coughtry's book,
published in the American Historical Review, I think, but I
can't seem to get my hands on the reference. Perhaps others can
help you on this one.
 
Lynn Pan, Alcohol in Africa. Helsinki, 1975.
 
Emmanuel A. Ayandele, The Missionary Impact on Modern Nigeria,
1872-1914. London, 1966, especially Chapter 10 - "The Triumph of
Gin".
 
Raymond E. Dumett, "The Social Impact of the European Liquor Trade
on the Akan of Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante), 1875-1910," Journal
of Interdisciplinary History. Vol. 1, 1974, pp. 69-101.
 
A. Olorunfemi, "The Liquor Traffic Dilemma in British West Africa:
The Southern Nigerian Example, 1895-1918," International Journal of
African Historical Studies. Vol. 17, 1984, pp. 229-241.
 
Gregory R. Pirio, "Commerce, Industry and Empire: The Making of
Modern Portuguese Colonialism in Angola and Mozambique,"
Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, University of California at Los
Angeles, 1982, especially Chapter 7 - "The Political Economy of
Alcohol in the Portuguese Empire".
 
Jerker Carlsson, "Brazilian Trade with West Africa and Angola
within the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1500-1850: The Dialectics of
South-South Exchange," in Jerker Carlsson and Timothy M. Shaw, eds.
Newly Industrialized Countries and the Political Economy of South-
South Relations. London, 1988, pp. 151-183.
 
Joseph C. Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan
Slave Trade, 1730-1830. Madison, 1988.
 
Alison Jones, "The Rhode Island Slave Trade: A Trading Advantage in
Africa," Slavery and Abolition. Vol. 2, 1981, pp. 227-244.
 
Elaine F. Crane, "The First Wheel of Commerce: Newport, Rhode
Island, and the Slave Trade, 1760-1776," Slavery and Abolition.
Vol. 1, 1980, pp.
 
 
 
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