The Economic, Political, and Social Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa

Slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean weakened the possibility of maintaining Africa's economic development and its social and political stability fundamentally. With the arrival of Europeans on the coast of West Africa, the creation of a slave port throughout Africa continues the development of human resources, labor and products in Africa. This exploitative business activity has had little benefit from slave trade and has influenced African political and religious aristocrats, warrior classes and mixed-leasing elites who participated in the repression of their own people. On the other hand, Europeans made it possible to weaken the African society, which has actively used the raw materials of the industrial revolution and has greatly disappointed the ability to transform its production style into an executable entrepreneurial economy, so the Atlantic trade It has received many benefits from. pause

Impact of slave trade on the West and Central Africa Transatlantic crossing trade has greatly changed the nature and scale of slavery in Africa. The development of Atlantic slave trade resulted in more enslavement in Africa and exploitation of stronger slave labor in Africa. This deal may not reduce the total population, but it is distorting the ratio of men and women. In Angola, there are only 40 to 50 men per 100 females. For slave trade, adult men are hunting and are fishing. Slave trade also caused violence, spreading disease, importing European goods in large quantities and destroying the local industry.

The publication of "Atlantic Slave Trade: Census" (1969) by Philip Curtin further stimulated the discussion about the economic impact of Atlantic trade. Discussions on the economic impact of Atlantic trade in the 1970s more and more focused on demographic estimates of slave exports related to the mainland birthrate. Most scholars currently believe that Curtin is too conservative in his calculations. Most of it is estimated to be between 11.5 million and 15.4 million. Recently, John K. Thornton proposed a discussion closer to Fagor, but Joseph Inicoli, Patrick Manning and Nathan Nunn believed that slave trade had a long-lasting destructive effect on Africa's economic development. Impact