The long-term institutional effect of slavery on the quality of governance and state fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

• In Event: Historical Legacies, Attitudes and Institutions in African Countries

Brief Overview

The study finds that African states that experienced higher levels of extraction of indentured Africans during the Transatlantic, Indian-ocean, Trans-Saharan, and Red sea slave trades have a long-term pernicious effect on political development.

Author

• Rollin F. Tusalem, Arkansas State University-Main Campus