The Long-Term Effects of Slave Trade in African Development

• In Event: History, Path Dependence and Development (Co-sponsored with Section 66: Politics & History)

Brief Overview

Paper examines economic development paths and historical legacies of the massive slave trade in the African continent on economic and political development (in the shapes of state capacity and democratization) in the region.

Author

• Rashid Carlos Jamil Marcano Rivera, Indiana University-Bloomington