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The Import of Firearms into West Africa in the Eighteenth Century - 1 views

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Phatane Radingwana 220165865 History 2A

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The trebling of slave prices and the sharp reduction in gun prices between 1680 and 1720 enabled large militarised slave-exporting states to develop along the Gold and Slave Coasts. There was a strong demand for well-finished and well-proved guns as well as for the cheapest unproved guns, and the dangerous state of many of the guns imported into west Africa has been exaggerated.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The trebling of slave prices and the sharp reduction in gun prices between 1680 and 1720 enabled large militarised slave-exporting states to develop along the Gold and Slave Coasts. There was a strong demand for well-finished and well-proved guns as well as for the cheapest unproved guns, and the dangerous state of many of the guns imported into west Africa has been exaggerated.</div>

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