from the slave trade to pacification and colonisation
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Guns dont colonise people...'- the role and use of firearms in pre-colonial and colonia... - 1 views
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The argument followed that ‘the importation of guns was the principal reason for warfare within Africa and that it was by means of such wars that gun-toting Africans supplied the Atlantic economy with slaves’. 10
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if guns were not brought to africa, there would be no warefare within africa because there was nothing created that was more powerful and could enforce control other than guns.
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while imports of firearms closely tracked imports of slaves, a guns-forslaves equation is too simple to describe the complexities of political transformations
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the importation of guns altered angola and africa as a whole as well as brining in so many changes with regards to power
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In addition, Richards notes that the firearm trade peaked in the 1830s (although he gives no figures for this peak), which again weakens the ‘slave–gun cycle’ theory. 13 Firearms were being imported well before the heyday of the slave trade and their importation continued to rise in many key slaving areas after its abolition.
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This revolution brought about significant changes in the functioning of arms that made them more suited to warfare and hunting.
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gunpowder with greater protection from rain and humidity, and made the process of firing much quicker. 30
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firearms were more reliable, handled better and were more durable.
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Whilst other historians have mentioned these military and political transformations, they have never been spelt out at such length or with such technological determinism.
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determanism: the doctrine that all events including human action are decided through external will. Basically the use of guns would have happened whether sooner or later because that is just how the world was supposed to develop.
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nteraction between technology and change in Africa.
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menacing and violent to justify full “pacification”.’ 43
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Guns, Race and Power is an important contribution, but by no means an exhaustive one.
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It also allows the firearms trade to be correlated with other plottable variables, such as hunting exports (ivory, feathers, skins), to reveal otherwise invisible inter-relationships for further inquiry
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FIREARMS, HORSES, AND SLAVE SOLDIERS: THE MILITARY HISTORY OF AFRICAN SLAVERY.pdf - 1 views
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standing. Beyond the range of ships' guns, Europeans held no significant military advantage and enjoyed little success against African forces until the n
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When the europeans arrived in Angola, they had no advantage over the indigenous people even though they had guns
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Before the late nineteenth century and the appearance of the Maxim gun, European firearms conferred only a modest ad vantage to their bearers, not a d
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quences of the huge num bers of firearms imported from Europe to the Atlantic coast of Afri
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thus resulting in the trading of guns and ammunitions between europeans and africans.
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Although Africans sought to fit firearms into the traditional fighting methods, they also recognized the need for new tech niques to take advantage of the n
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although guns had a negative impact as it incited violence and death, africans-including Angolans knew this could help them in battles as well as to protect themselves.
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he introduction of firearms differentially impacted societies of varying complexity; firearms meant some thing quite different to roving bands of hunter-gatherers than they did to states founded on military conquest.25
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hunter gathers used firearms to kill animals and hunt them for food. the advancement and introduction of firearms made their job easier as they did not have to use self made weapons but rather guns. in terms of military aspects, the introduction and trade of guns resulted in more conflict and a fight for superiority
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. British 'Angola guns'—cheap, unproved long-barrel flint lock muskets—dominated the weapons trade along the Atlantic coast. Firearms in the eighteenth century were absolutely central to the trade of people for goods. Although they did not usually comprise the bulk of goods traded—muskets and gunpowder accounted for about 10 percent of the cargo offloaded on the Loango coast (present-day Angola) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, third behind textiles and liquor— trading would seldom take place unless powder and shot were included. Some quantity of guns and gunpowder was a part of virtually every purchase of slaves. No other commodities were so indispensable.26
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Angola became a place for trading of firearms even though it hadnt gained that much attraction. this is due to angola having a trading port between europe
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Europeans fostered the slave trade through their control of guns, which they would trade only for slaves, the guns in turn providing the means to acquire more slaves to buy more guns, and so ad infinitum. In this view, Africans conducted war to supply the slave trade, and sold slaves chiefly to obtain the weaponry that allowed them to seize more slaves. Slave exports rose in direct proportion to the quantity of firearms import
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guns were essential in the slave trade and became a part of the slave trade in angola because guns were needed to control and instil fear on slaves so that they could be traded and more guns were sold to gain more control thus the name gun-slave cycle
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The British gunpowder industry and Atlantic slavery, c.1701-1807 - Economic History Soc... - 1 views
Firearms, horse, and slave soldiers the military history of african slavery.pdf - 2 views
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