Black Death reaches Sub-Saharan Africa.

It's because the populations taken to the Americas are the result of corn, manioc, peanut and sweet potato dramatically increasing the carrying capacity of the land.

I thought the two happened concurrently with the large scale slave trade happening first and then the Columbian Exchange softening the demographic blow so that Sub-Saharan Africa didn't become completely depopulated. I read in "Africa: A Biography of the Continent" that because of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Africa's population stagnated for a full century while Europe's and Asia's took off. It's too bad that the African leaders didn't use the benefits of the Columbian Exchange to set their people to greater cultivation and metalworking and general expansion instead of demographically plundering each other and their neighbors. Of course, once guns started being traded into the continent on a large scale, I guess that was a point of no return.
 
the arab slave trade was alot more extensive and lasted a lot longer
The Arab Slave Trade largely affected the East African interior which was historically bereft of settled societies, whereas the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade affected the urban societies of West Africa, making the dynamics entirely different.

Which isn't to underlay the extent of the Arab Slave Trade, just to say it's apples and oranges.
 
I thought the two happened concurrently with the large scale slave trade happening first and then the Columbian Exchange softening the demographic blow so that Sub-Saharan Africa didn't become completely depopulated. I read in "Africa: A Biography of the Continent" that because of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Africa's population stagnated for a full century while Europe's and Asia's took off. It's too bad that the African leaders didn't use the benefits of the Columbian Exchange to set their people to greater cultivation and metalworking and general expansion instead of demographically plundering each other and their neighbors. Of course, once guns started being traded into the continent on a large scale, I guess that was a point of no return.

You speak as if these things weren't happening simutaneously and you act as though West African rulers weren't European identified lol.
 
The Arab Slave Trade largely affected the East African interior which was historically bereft of settled societies, whereas the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade affected the urban societies of West Africa, making the dynamics entirely different.

Which isn't to underlay the extent of the Arab Slave Trade, just to say it's apples and oranges.
i agree very different, though the arab slave trade even extended to western-europe to some extend, taking slaves as far away as england, the netherlands and even iceland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
 
you act as though West African rulers weren't European identified lol.

Could you point me to a source that explains that? I'm confused by that assertion as I haven't heard that before. I know that West Africans didn't see the slave trade as "Africans selling Africans" but why would they identify as Europeans? Europeans weren't conquerors, they looked completely different, they worshiped different gods and for the non-Islamic Africans, had a completely different cosmology.
 
Could you point me to a source that explains that? I'm confused by that assertion as I haven't heard that before. I know that West Africans didn't see the slave trade as "Africans selling Africans" but why would they identify as Europeans? Europeans weren't conquerors, they looked completely different, they worshiped different gods and for the non-Islamic Africans, had a completely different cosmology.

Eurafricans In Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

George E. Brooks
 
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