4.6.6. COLONIAL CONQUEST DOES NOT BRING ECONOMIC CONTROL

LOCAL PRODUCTION BLOCKS SALES OF WESTERN GOODS  

The victors want to open new markets but their most important export, textiles, do not sell. 

Why should locals buy flimsy manufactured cloth? Elites could have robes with magnificent embroidery and others, spectacular bands of excellent cotton that lasts indefinitely:

• At Paris's primal arts museum 

•  Textiles woven by hand / zoom 

 

Haussa weaving 

 

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The colonialists never took over the African market.

When Ghanaian soldiers in Indonesia

brought the striking "wax" prints home,

sales went to the Dutch

 and for the most part still do.

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Next,

 4.6.7.

Slaves are freed and economies collapse