HISTORY
NEW GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
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Question
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African cities were vulnerable to colonization
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African cities kept secretly sending slaves to the Americas and slavery continued
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Nothing, it just ended
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The effect of slavery in Africa Some states, such as Asante and Dahomey, grew powerful and wealthy as a result. Other states were completely destroyed and their populations decimated as they were absorbed by rivals. Millions of Africans were forcibly removed from their homes, and towns and villages were depopulated.
Detailed explanation-2: -Causes of colonisation The reasons for African colonisation were mainly economic, political and religious.
Detailed explanation-3: -The slave trade had devastating effects in Africa. Economic incentives for warlords and tribes to engage in the slave trade promoted an atmosphere of lawlessness and violence. Depopulation and a continuing fear of captivity made economic and agricultural development almost impossible throughout much of western Africa.
Detailed explanation-4: -Except for a fifty-year period between 1676 and 1725, West Central Africa sent more slaves to the Americas than any other region. In the first century of trading over 900, 000 (52%) of all Africans leaving the continent came from West Central Africa. Map of embarkation areas in West and West Central Africa.