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How the slave trades underdeveloped Africa
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Warren Whatley, University of Michigan
Version: View help for Version V1
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Project Citation:
Whatley, Warren. How the slave trades underdeveloped Africa. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2022-03-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E165362V1
Project Description
Summary:
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This is the replication package for the article "How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa." They include STATA codes, data and a description of how the travel time variables were calculated.
Scope of Project
Geographic Coverage:
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Africa
Time Period(s):
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1500 – 1900
Data Type(s):
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geographic information system (GIS) data;
observational data
Collection Notes:
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These data consists of (1) anthropological observations (circa 1900) on African societies from George Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas; (2) slave export data (circa 1500-1850) and (3) estimated travel times in precolonial Africa. The three sources of data are merged using GIS locations.
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