The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2655053

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2015

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2655053

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The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa

Graziella Bertocchi

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How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa

Whatley

2022

J. Econ. Hist.

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I use newly-developed data on Africa to estimate the effects of the international slave trades (circa 1500–1850) on the institutional structures of African economies and societies (circa 1900). I find that: (1) societies in slave catchment zones adopted slavery to defend against further enslavement; (2) slave trades spread slavery and polygyny together; (3) politically centralized aristocratic slave regimes emerge in West Africa and family-based accumulations of slave wealth in East Africa. I discuss implications for literatures on long-term legacies in African political and economic development.

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How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa

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The Legacies of Slavery in and Out of Africa

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