Hi all,
I have a question: we all know that slavery and the Transatlantic trade wasn't exactly great for the Africans individual being transported.
I was wondering about the larger impact slavery had on African societies.
I had read a while ago that slavery precluded the emergence of larger polities such as cities as any big concentration of people would have been raided by predatory tribes.
On top of that, those predatory tribes would have become way richer as well
So, what was the wider impact on society beyond the lack of workforce and what did that lack of workforce have on African societies as a whole?