- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Editors' Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Stanford Tradition in Economic History
- PART ONE Evolutionary Processes in Economics
- Chapter 2 Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes
- Chapter 3 The Institutionalization of Science in Europe, 1650–1850
- Chapter 4 The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies
- Chapter 5 Similar Societies, Different Solutions: U.S. Indian Policy in Light of Australian Policy toward Aboriginal Peoples
- Part Two Spatial Processes and Comparative Development
- Chapter 6 Financial Market and Industry Structure: A Comparison of the Banking and Textile Industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850–1870
- Chapter 8 Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development
- Chapter 9 Banking on the Periphery: The Cotton South, Systemic Seasonality, and the Limits of National Banking Reform
- Chapter 10 Rural Credit and Mobility in India
- Part Three Revolution in Labor Markets
- Chapter 11 Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History
- Chapter 12 The Political Economy of Progress: Lessons from the Causes and Consequences of the New Deal
- Chapter 13 Teachers and Tipping Points: Historical Origins of the Teacher Quality Crisis
- Chapter 14 Inequality and Institutions in Twentieth-Century America
- Chapter 15 The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage:
- Chapter 16 America's First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung
- Appendix Selected Publications of Gavin Wright
- Index
The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies
The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies
- Chapter:
- (p.86) Chapter 4 The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies
- Source:
- Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time
- Author(s):
Warren C. Whatley
Rob Gillezeau
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
This chapter, which analyzes the evolutionary processes ignited by the colonial encounters of indigenous populations in Africa with European colonizers, examines the fundamental impact of slave trade in African economic and societies and argues that the slave trade can be viewed as a perverse instance of the “resource” curse. It first assesses the impact of the slave trade on Africa by looking at the empirical relationship between slave demand and slave exports. The chapter then describes the conditions under which the slave trade reduced the size of states, increased social and ethnic stratification, and created a reign of terror.
Keywords: evolutionary process, colonial encounters, indigenous populations, Africa, Europeans, slave trade, resource curse, ethnic stratification
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Editors' Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Stanford Tradition in Economic History
- PART ONE Evolutionary Processes in Economics
- Chapter 2 Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes
- Chapter 3 The Institutionalization of Science in Europe, 1650–1850
- Chapter 4 The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies
- Chapter 5 Similar Societies, Different Solutions: U.S. Indian Policy in Light of Australian Policy toward Aboriginal Peoples
- Part Two Spatial Processes and Comparative Development
- Chapter 6 Financial Market and Industry Structure: A Comparison of the Banking and Textile Industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850–1870
- Chapter 8 Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development
- Chapter 9 Banking on the Periphery: The Cotton South, Systemic Seasonality, and the Limits of National Banking Reform
- Chapter 10 Rural Credit and Mobility in India
- Part Three Revolution in Labor Markets
- Chapter 11 Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History
- Chapter 12 The Political Economy of Progress: Lessons from the Causes and Consequences of the New Deal
- Chapter 13 Teachers and Tipping Points: Historical Origins of the Teacher Quality Crisis
- Chapter 14 Inequality and Institutions in Twentieth-Century America
- Chapter 15 The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage:
- Chapter 16 America's First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung
- Appendix Selected Publications of Gavin Wright
- Index