early-twentieth centuries. The existing historiography has tended to emphasize a cultural or religious basis for slavery in …

This paper addresses the long-term impact of Sub-Saharan Africa’s indigenous systems of slavery on its political and … develop a theory to account for this based on the framework proposed by North et al. (2009), where indigenous slavery may have … indigenous slavery is robustly and negatively associated with the quality of governance and with current income levels. …

exogenous land quality and endogenously evolving population determine the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny. I use …, slavery, and polygyny occurred where land was most suitable for agriculture, and where population density was greatest. These … theories of slavery. …