IV.5. THE NEW PRODUCERS WIN, THEN CRUMBLE

 4.5. PRODUCERS WIN THEN CRUMBLE

SLAVE RAIDERS SWEEP THE SAVANNAH

When the end of the Atlantic slave trade* diminishes the resources of traditional states, leaders whose wealth comes from slave-based production blow them away. Their resources come from long distance trade and slave-grown produce sold on the markets. 

*Between about 1850 and 1870.

They obtain it by the intense exploitation of slaves, obtained by massive raids.

Gone from web

These savannah horsemen resemble the raiders.

In brief

• Destruction, slavery and economic growth

• Adapting Islam to the need for labor

• Samory's legend skips the raided

• Detour: Nationalist history hides modern issues

• Samory and the Senufo Judas

• Colonial conquest does not bring economic control

• Islam, a non-Western topic? 

• Africans take center-stage

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4.5.1. 

Destruction, slavery and economic growth