SLAVERY AND GROWTH

RAIDS BECOME MASSIVE AND EFFICIENT

They are meant to seize land and labor for production,
not maintain the status quo

 • New firarms, new use, new results 

 "Muslim raid in the 1880's" by Harry Johnston 

Rifles replace the deliberately poor trade guns.

Arab slavers in East Africa, Internet (source not named)

Populations are massively displaced..  

Second journey to the source of the Nile by John Speke, London, 1864 (colors added, Almamy stock photo)

...to work immense domains. 

• Djimini production greatly expands
during the raider Samory Ture's brief rule
(1894-98)

Kong, Kondodougou and Bokhala are destroyed, but other villages spring up or become larger -- "Marabadiassa which replaced Kong after its destruction, is an important commercial center." 

 
Rice culture develops, yams are introduced, markets grow from 2000 people to 5000 and the new center of Dabakala attracts 7000. 

 -- Abidjan archives, 1899 

All interlocutors confirmed that growth.

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