The African Slave Trades

Readings

Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades

Additional Readings Mentioned in Lecture

The Long-Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades

The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa

Class Materials

Lecture Notes

Lab

In this lab, we will replicate and extend the findings of Nathan Nunn’s papers using his country-level data on exposure to the African slave trades.

You can complete the lab in either Stata or R, though I recommend Stata for first and second year students planning to major in economics. The lab templates will also coach you through all of the steps required to complete the lab. Make sure to add your code to the template so that you can easily replicate all of the steps in your analysis.

The Stata template is available here.

The R template is available here.