Arbeitspapier
Up the River: International Slave Trades and the Transformations of Slavery in Africa
According to western observers, slavery was almost universal in Africa by the end of the slave trade era. I investigate the extent to which the international slave trades transformed the institutions of slavery in Africa. I use newly-developed data on travel time to estimate the inland reach of international slave demand. I find that societies in decentralized catchment zones adopted slavery to defend against further enslavement. More generally, I find that the international slave trades incentivized the evolution of aristocratic slave regimes characterized by slavery as a property system, polygyny as a family organization, inheritance of property within the nuclear family and hereditary succession in local politics. I discuss the implications for literatures on long-term legacies in African development.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: African Economic History Working Paper Series ; No. 51/2019
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Coercive Labor Markets
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: Africa; Oceania
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Africa; Oceania
Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Africa; Oceania
- Subject
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Slavery
Slave Trade
Slave Regimes
Institutions
Africa
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Whatley, Warren C.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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African Economic History Network (AEHN)
- (where)
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s.l.
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Whatley, Warren C.
- African Economic History Network (AEHN)
Time of origin
- 2021
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