Topics in West African History

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Topics in West African History

• A. Boahen with J.F.A Ajayi M. Tidy

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West Africa Europe
Europeans partly and in some cases wholly
responsible for fall of empires
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Brief TimelineShifting Relations
Chartered companies Atlantic Slave Trade European
Influence Colonization European Abandonment
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Factors Affecting European Expansion
Technology Caravel Latitude Astrolab
Economic Direct Spices Gold
Political Ottoman Religious Wars Crusades
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European Aims Interests
Route to India Conversion Colonies Trade w/Africa
Soc, Rel, Pol, Eco Aims
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
Main Interest of Europeans in 18th century Nature
of Slave Trade Plantation Economy Mineral
Resources Labor Problem in Colonies
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Coromantine
IB Moment
Slave Mutiny On Ships Slave Uprising Jamaica
Aversion to husbandry martial ferocity
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Complicity Enslavement
Africans Involved Criminals Raids Domestics
Resold POWs
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The Effects of Slave Trade
No benefits to West Africa at all
Destruction to Pop. Suffering Constant
Conflict Eco Disruption Cultural Disruption
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Abolition of Slave Trade Effects
Reasons for Abolition Humanitarian Economic
IB Moment
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Humanitarian
Age of Democracy Evangelical Period Anti-Slavery
Movement
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Economic
Reform not Abolition 1792 Brit. Carib. had all
they needed Need to limit competition Overproducti
on Industrialization African products more
important than Africans
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Effects of Abolition
Social World-wide Abolition Spread of
Christianity Western Ed. Agriculture Oral to
Written New African White Masks, Black
faces Some Good but a whole lot of Bad
TOGO
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Economic Palm Oil Gold Ivory Groundnuts Gum Coffee
Cotton Timber Rubber Cocoa
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Legitimate Trade Social Africans human Middle
Class Economic Companies Attracted Political Indep
endence Possible
annexation
Influence