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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] About the article from Louise Marie allot of the information is wrong, the devastation of the slave trade was mostly after the mid-seventeenth century. "Arab" trafficking was always marginal. It was mostly trade goods that stimulated the wars, firearms were a means to make it easier to wage wars for slaves. Many places were devastated even though not having direct contact with Europeans Does anyone have information on what the population was in 1500 as opposed to after the slave trade. He is saying the population was lowered by 400,000,000 :eek: ? Louise Marie Diop-Maes "Memory of the slave trade The impact on Africa" [URL=http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2007/11/DIOP_MAES/15329&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DThe%2Btruth%2Babout%2Bwhat%2Bslavery%2Bdid%2Bto%2BAfrica%2Bby%2BLouise%2BMarie%2BDiop-Maes%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG]http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2007/11/DIOP_MAES/15329&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=7&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DThe%2Btruth%2Ba bout%2Bwhat%2Bslavery%2Bdid%2Bto%2BAfrica%2Bby%2BLouise%2BMarie%2BDiop-Maes%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG[/URL] [QUOTE] The intellectual and spiritual level was similar to that of North Africa at the same time. The great Arab traveler of the fourteenth century, Ibn Battuta, praised security and justice found in the empire of Mali. Before the use of firearms, the Arab slave trade remained marginal compared to economic activity and population size. Leo Africanus (early sixteenth century) mentions that the King of Bornu (Chad region) will mount an expedition to capture slaves once a year (1).... [b] The raids were multiplied to the point of reaching a total of eighty per year in the early nineteenth century,[/b] north-east of Central, according to the Tunisian scholar Mohamed el-Tounsy, who traveled to Darfur and Ouaddaï (now Chad) at this time (2). [b]The percentage of prisoners in relation to the whole population thus continually increases from the seventeenth century and the late nineteenth and "once densely populated districts were reclaimed by the bush" or forest" (3).[/b] ...This evaluation was possible because, with the European presence within the territories, some statistical details were added to the narrative sources (11). After correction for failure to report, the population was estimated at one hundred and forty hundred and forty five million people, approximately. Given the increase recorded between 1930 and 1948-1949, it is estimated that in 1930 with a population between one hundred thirty one hundred thirty-five million people, [b]which therefore represent two thirds of the population approximate years 1870-1890, and estimated at about two hundred million. It concludes that the population was in the sixteenth century to about six hundred million at least (an average of about thirty persons per square kilometer) as the result of my research.[/b] The old figures of thirty-one hundred million were entirely imaginary, and that showed Daniel Noin, former president of the Population Committee of the International Geographical Union (12). [/QUOTE]"International Dictionary of Historic Places: Middle East and Africa" By Trudy Ring, Robert M. Salkin, Sharon La Boda http://books.google.com/books?id=R44VRnNCzAYC&pg=RA1-PA398#v=onepage&q=&f=false [QUOTE] Through contact with the Islamic world to the north and east, Kano and the rest of Hausaland already were influenced indirectly by the wider world, indcluding the western world. Kano had served as a center of the slave trade from long before this time, but served mostly north Africa. [b]The demand for slaves to fill the needs of European colonies in the New World, led Kano more deeply into the slave trade early in the seventeenth century. The Hausa themselves never dealt directly with European slavers. Rather, they would go on raiding expeditions to the south, then trade their captives to other peoples south and west of them, who would trade with Europeans on the coast.[/b] [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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