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The historian Walter Rodney posits several factors in the development of the European run Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST). The development and growth of the TAST was a slow process that went through several stages. What began as a trickle at the end of the fifteenth century became a flood by the middle of the eighteenth century. According to Walter Rodney:

 

(1) How did the appearance and rise of a new class of individuals in West African coastal communities allied to the European slave trade contribute to this process of enslavement? This new class contributed to the European slave trade by obtaining European commodities in exchange for their captives. And what name did Rodney give this new group? The name given to this group was new elites

 

(2) How did the fragmented structure and small size of many West African societies who were too small and vulnerable to protect themselves from slave raiders contribute to the process? The societies that were too small and vulnerable contributed to the process of slave trade due to the fact that they didn’t have the man power to protect themselves from slave raiders and hunters which led to them being raided and any form of resistance overshadowed leading to surrender, then captured and taken in as slaves Your answer must provide specific examples from the reading. An example is the Yoruba political federation which was disintegrated due to slave raiding by the neighboring countries.

 

 

 

(3) How did the corruption of the old African systems of government by the new breed of local African entrepreneurs (businessmen) tied to and working on behalf of the global capitalist market contribute to the process? Corruption of the old African systems of government by the breed of local African entrepreneurs tied to working on behalf of the global capitalist market contributed to slave trade by taking advantage of the legal authority to classify people as criminals and sentence them to slavery Your answer must provide specific examples from the readings. For example, it was easy to bring up untrue charged of adultery against perfectly innocent individuals.

 

(4) How did the growth in the influence of European slave traders and European slave trading companies like the Royal Africa Company and the Dutch West India Company contribute to this process? The growth of the Royal Africa Company and the Dutch West India Company contributed to this process of slavery because as these companies grew larger there grew a more demand for slave laborers which in turn lead to more hunting of slaves.

(5) How did constant warfare fuelled by the TAST contribute to this process? This constant warfare fueled by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST) contributed to slavery as it led to the capturing of slaves for reasons of trading for other commodities. This led to the capturing of slaves by slave merchants through any was possible.

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