The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades*

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2008
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Abstract
Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave ethnicities to construct estimates of the number of slaves exported from each country during Africa's slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves exported from a country and current economic performance. To better understand if the relationship is causal, I examine the historical evidence on selection into the slave trades and use instrumental variables. Together the evidence suggests that the slave trades had an adverse effect on economic development.
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Authors Nathan Nunn
Journal the quarterly journal of economics
Year 2008
DOI
10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.139
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https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.2008.123.1.139
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