Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242635 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
African Economic History Working Paper Series No. 6/2012
Publisher: 
African Economic History Network (AEHN), s.l.
Abstract: 
This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa's indigenous systems of slavery on its political and economic development, based on an analytical survey of the literature and data collected from anthropological records. We develop a theory to account for this based on the framework proposed by North et al. (2009), where indigenous slavery may have impeded the transition from a 'limited access state' centred around personal relations to an 'open access state' based on impersonal rule of law and widely shared access to public and private organisations. In a quantitative analysis we find that indigenous slavery is robustly and negatively associated with the quality of governance and with current income levels.
Subjects: 
Africa
Slavery
States
colonialism
economic development
JEL: 
N17
N27
N37
N47
N57
ISBN: 
978-91-980438-5-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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