By James F. Searing
The writer exhibits how the societies of West Africa have been remodeled through the slave alternate. the expansion of the Atlantic exchange motivated the advance of slavery in the quarter, with slaves operating within the river and coasting trades or generating surplus grain to feed slaves in transit. a number of held pivotal positions within the political constitution of the coastal kingdoms of Senegambia. This neighborhood slave method had far-reaching outcomes, resulting in non secular protest and slave rebellions. The alterations in agricultural creation fostered an ecological hindrance.
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In this system aristocratic women were responsible for the management of the household and production, while aristocratic men devoted themselves to the arts of war and government. This is his [the king's] manner of living with his wives: he has certain villages and places, in some of which he keeps eight or ten of them. Each has a house of her own, with young servants to attend her, and slaves to cultivate the possessions and land assigned by the lord. They also have a certain number of beasts, such as cows and goats, for their use; in this 95way the wives have the land sown and the beasts tended, and so gain a living.
Even allowing for an undercount of 100 slaves a year in each period, the slave exports of the Lower Senegal represented only about 10 per cent of the total exports of Senegambia, based on the revised estimates 32 Slavery and the slave trade of David Richardson for the Senegambian slave trade. From year to year there were important variations in the contribution of the Lower Senegal to the overall trade. 32 In 1753, 1754, and 1755, the French purchased 900-1100 slaves in the immediate vicinity of Saint Louis and Goree.
The centralized monarchy of the seventeenth and 22 Cosaan: "the origins" eighteenth centuries contrasts with the more diffuse and "feudal" system of power described by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century. "This kingdom does not descend by inheritance, but in this land there are diverse lords, who through jealousy, at times agree among themselves, and set up a King of their own, if he is in truth of noble parentage. The King rules as long as he is pleasing to the said lords. "97 Oral traditions suggest that royal slaves played an important role at court as early as the mid-seventeenth century.