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I'm not saying that all wars and turmoil in Africa were because of the slave trade, but looking at Abyssinia there is reason to think the slave trade did damage to this country. This would also mean African Americans also descend from Abyssinia Henry Louis Gates in his book "Wonders of the African World" page 86 mentions increased slave trading during the reign of Emperor Fasiledes. Ironically this is the same time as the expulsion of the Portuguese. The trend seems to be those Africans who became embroiled in the slave trade would then do everything they could to keep Europeans at arm length. All relations henceforth become purely economic. For information on the early period: "Ambassadors, Explorers, and Allies: A Study of African-European Diplomatic Relationships, 1400-1600" by Andrea Felber Seligman http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=curej "Although the Portuguese pursued a variety of strategies on the coast of Africa, from conquest to adherence to African customs, their later imperialist policies were not a predictable result from their first coastal contacts. Nor was the capture of slaves the main Portuguese economic endeavor before the sixteen hundreds." Countless descriptions of Abyssinia describe it as being degenerate. Perhaps this turmoil was going to happen anyway but the description rising to a peculiar height suggests to me the slave trade intensifying problems that might have happened anyway Also one description of the Galla describes them as motivated by slave hunting "Their career is marked by indiscriminate massacre : they sраге neither sex nor age, unless from the anticipation of gain by carrying off and selling prisoners" The encyclopædia of geography http://books.google.com/books?id=71tAQwRztWkC&dq=era%20of%20civil%20wars%20in%20abyssinia&pg=PA586 =onepage&q=&f=false

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