Social Sciences and History / Unit 6 SSH 0511 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Trans-Saharan Trade Turns to the Coast
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The idea
Kanem-Bornu's caravan power ended in the sixteenth century. Its collapse and Songhai's let Dahomey, Oyo and Segou rise and fight, disrupting the Saharan routes. By the eighteenth century European demand for captives and African chiefs' pursuit of gain reoriented trade to coastal West Africa.
In practice
Whydah on the Slave Coast.
Where people slip
Coastal states became arteries for captives, the anchor says.
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