-colonial state show significantly higher levels of trust in current day institutions. …

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors-conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs …-that, through trust, may affect attitudes toward citizenship, are not generating the same distinctive pattern of linkages emerging …

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our … underlying link between trust and the slave trade is confirmed. Alternative factors - conflict, kinship, and witchcraft beliefs … - that, through trust, may affect attitudes toward citizenship, are not generating the same distinctive pattern of linkages …