What effects did the African slave trade have on the development of societies and governments in the New World and in Africa?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Effects of the African slave trade
1. much of Atlantic-side America became more African than European
a. slaves practiced their own religions
b. maintained their own household patterns
c. ate their own food
d. created languages of their own
2. slave communities often created autonomous institutions even in
controlled plantations
a. had leaders that were the self-regulating judges of the slaves
b. slaves themselves evolved family structures
c. regulated relationships and the norms of behavior on plantations
3. African political structures in America
a. independent states established by runaway "maroons,"
sometimes in collaboration with Native Americans
b. easier to establish a working relationship than run the risks of
war and of inflaming slaves' grievances
4. social, political, and demographic effects of the slave trade in Africa
are hard to measure
a. black African sellers procured slaves by war and raiding that
reached hundreds of miles into the interior
b. fringes of African slave-trading societies, some areas may have
been depopulated
c. economics of the slave trade obliged African suppliers to be
warriors or bandits, because the prices Europeans paid made it
worth raiding for slaves
d. state-building on an even greater scale was possible with
resources other than slaves
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