Blog 4

Slave trading resulted in disrupted commerce for some areas within Africa. It also brought lost of aspects of African culture into many different countries. Slaves were owned often by wealthy and were inherited by children. Some slaves in Islam acquired higher political status. Slavery was largely based on plantation agriculture and lacking rights. Europeans exchanged slaves for textiles, metal goods, and firearms. Slave trade shaped African societies as they used cowrie shells as a form of their money which grew on the corpses of the dead bodies. More men than women were traded as slaves which lead to their being more women than men in Africa. With there being more women, this meant that men were allowed to have multiple wives.