Paper Proposal 1

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Title of the project

The long-run effects of Africa’s slave trade

Motivation

The main paper will address the understanding of the long-run impacts related to the

slave trade which happened in Africa. Research questions will include;

i. Is there evidence that the slave trade in Africa helped to shape the continent?

ii. Were there cultural, economic and social outcomes related to the slave trade in Africa?

iii. What was the effect of the slave trade to the entire world?

Besides collecting information from people who went to other countries as a result of the

slave trade, for instance, France and America on the kind of changes they encountered

information will also collect in other reviewed sources. Findings will be based on direct changes

which happened as addressed by research questions.

Thesis

The paper addresses the existing evidence of how the slave trade shaped

Africa and the entire world in terms of cultural, economic and social outcomes
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Annotated bibliography

Nunn, Nathan. "The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades." The Quarterly Journal of

Economics 123, no. 1 (2008): 139-176.

Nunn explains the kind of impacts of the slave trade which led to the underdevelopment

of Africa in terms of economic and social development. Data is collected from the early shipping

records.

Klein, Martin A., and Jan Hogendorn. The Atlantic Slave Trade: effects on economies, societies,

and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Duke University Press, 1992.

Revolution of England is explained in terms of the manpower provided by the captured

Africans in the various industries, for instance, the cotton industry. How Africans died on the

way to Britain is also discussed.

Whatley, Warren, and Rob Gillezeau. "The impact of the transatlantic slave trade on ethnic

stratification in Africa." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (2011): 571-76.

Although it is argued that due to the slave trade in Africa this source gives the economic

destabilization of African and fragmentation of ethnic bonds as a result of the slave trade, the

article discusses both negative and positive impacts.

Deyle, Steven.  Carry me back: the domestic slave trade in American life. Oxford University

Press on Demand, 2005.

American live was profoundly impacted by the results of the African slave trade, the

transformation of economic aspects in America was realized, and Americans created the iron of

liberty to the African.

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Rodney, Walter. How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Vol. 239. London, 1972.

Rodney highlights how Europe disintegrated Africa economically as a result of the trade,

the able-bodied, health and useful people who could work were taken making African economy

dormant

Van Dantzig, Albert. "Effects of the Atlantic slave trade on some West African societies." Outre-

Mers. Revue d'histoire62, no. 226 (1975): 252-269.

The great Atlantic slave trade has a significant impact on Africa by economic, social and

political aspects. Atlantic slave trade changed the rest of the world in many issues.

Morgan, Philip D. "The cultural implications of the Atlantic slave trade: African regional

origins, American destinations, and new world developments." In Routes to Slavery, pp. 128-

151. Routledge, 2013.

There are various cultural implications of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa. Besides the

breaking of African culture, there were a lot of developments in the American, world

developments and African regions.

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Bibliography

Deyle, Steven. Carry me back: the domestic slave trade in American life. Oxford University

Press on Demand, 2005.

Klein, Martin A., and Jan Hogendorn. The Atlantic Slave Trade: effects on economies, societies,

and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Duke University Press, 1992.

Morgan, Philip D. "The cultural implications of the Atlantic slave trade: African regional origins,

American destinations, and new world developments." In Routes to Slavery, pp. 128-151.

Routledge, 2013.

Nunn, Nathan. "The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades." The Quarterly Journal of

Economics 123, no. 1 (2008): 139-176.

Rodney, Walter. How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Vol. 239. London, 1972.

Van Dantzig, Albert. "Effects of the Atlantic slave trade on some West African

societies." Outre- Mers. Revue d'histoire62, no. 226 (1975): 252-269.

Whatley, Warren, and Rob Gillezeau. "The impact of the transatlantic slave trade on ethnic

stratification in Africa." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (2011): 571-76.