HST 041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sokoto Caliphate, El Hadj Umar Tall, British Rail Class 97
4 Oct 2016
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This jihad created a zone of economic security, economic policy, that produced a trade system. A lot of this is the due to the production of slave plantations. Transition from trans-atlantic slave trade to legitimate commerce. The trade in people across the atlantic world. Africa is the producer of raw material in human beings that contributes to the growth of. Africans were getting a lot for their people. European merchants had to go to multiple ports to collect enough slaves before sailing across the atlantic. Numbers don"t include slaves who died in raids in africa. It"s in the interest of the slaver to keep the slaves alive. There was a private gain for the elites. Inequality in africa increases due to the trade. Long term this doesn"t facilitate good economic development. As other countries eventually abolished the slave trade as well. Successful or non successful, europeans wanted to intervene.
