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Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies

David Eltis, Joseph E. Inikori

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African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the context of the Atlantic slave trade / Walter Rodney -- The role of slavery in the economic and social history of Sahelo-Sudanic Africa / Claude Meillassoux -- Kayor and Baol / Charles Becker and Victor Martin -- The import of firearms into West Africa, 1750 to 1807 / J.E. Inikori -- Slavery and the slave trade in the context of West African history / J.D. Fage -- The Oyo Yoruba and the Atlantic trade, 1670 to 1830 / Peter Morton-Williams -- Effects of the Atlantic slave trade on some West African societies / Albert van Dantzig -- The trade of Loango in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Phyllis Martin -- The Portuguese slave trade from Angola in the eighteenth century / Herbert S. Klein -- The impact of the slave trade on east central Africa in the nineteenth century / Edward A. Alpers.

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African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the context of the Atlantic slave trade / Walter Rodney -- The role of slavery in the economic and social history of Sahelo-Sudanic Africa / Claude Meillassoux -- Kayor and Baol / Charles Becker and Victor Martin -- The import of firearms into West Africa, 1750 to 1807 / J.E. Inikori -- Slavery and the slave trade in the context of West African history / J.D. Fage -- The Oyo Yoruba and the Atlantic trade, 1670 to 1830 / Peter Morton-Williams -- Effects of the Atlantic slave trade on some West African societies / Albert van Dantzig -- The trade of Loango in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Phyllis Martin -- The Portuguese slave trade from Angola in the eighteenth century / Herbert S. Klein -- The impact of the slave trade on east central Africa in the nineteenth century / Edward A. Alpers.

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African slavery and other forms of social oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the context of the Atlantic slave trade / Walter Rodney -- The role of slavery in the economic and social history of Sahelo-Sudanic Africa / Claude Meillassoux -- Kayor and Baol / Charles Becker and Victor Martin -- The import of firearms into West Africa, 1750 to 1807 / J.E. Inikori -- Slavery and the slave trade in the context of West African history / J.D. Fage -- The Oyo Yoruba and the Atlantic trade, 1670 to 1830 / Peter Morton-Williams -- Effects of the Atlantic slave trade on some West African societies / Albert van Dantzig -- The trade of Loango in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Phyllis Martin -- The Portuguese slave trade from Angola in the eighteenth century / Herbert S. Klein -- The impact of the slave trade on east central Africa in the nineteenth century / Edward A. Alpers.

Key concepts: International trade, Forced migration, Economics, Colonialism, Political science, Development economics, Geography, International economics

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