IV.5. THE NEW PRODUCERS WIN, THEN CRUMBLE

 4.5. Producers win then crumble 

SLAVE RAIDERS SWEEP THE SAVANNAH

The end of the Atlantic slave trade* diminished the resources of traditional states, letting producers whose wealth came from long-distance trade blow them away and establish slave-based, profit-oriented theocracies in their stead. 

*Between roughly 1850 and 1870.

Gone from the web

Savannah horsemen who resemble the raiders.

A transformation that 

colonial conquest deletes

• Slavery and economic growth

• Adapting Islam to the need for labor

• Warlords and big-time traders

• Samory and the Senufo Judas

• Samory: bad guy or good guy, same tale

• Military conquest does not bring new markets: Take textiles

• Slaves freed, economies collapse

• Islam, sole non-Western subject

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