How the international slave trade underdeveloped Africa

Proximity to an international slave port may increase the spread of slavery and polygyny jointly.

Column 1; table 6

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Probit regression	Supported	p< .01	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Polygyny	Dependent	Polygamy
Spread of slavery	Dependent	Slavery
Proximity to international slave port	Independent	Location, Travel, Slavery

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Whatley, Warren	2022	The international slave trade will be positively correlated with the spread of slavery in Africa.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whatley, Warren	2022	In East Africa, proximity to an international slave port predicts a greater probability that a society will be organized around preservation of intergenerational slave wealth in nuclear-polygynous families, independent of political institutions.	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whatley, Warren	2022	In West Africa, proximity to an international slave port predicts a greater probability that a society will be organized around preservation of slave wealth in nuclear polygynous families under inherited local political aristocracies.	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Pryor, Frederic L.	1977	Polygyny will be associated with the presence of slaves owned as social capital (p. 33).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Lowes, Sara, Nunn, Nathan	2024	The impact of the slave trade on sub-Saharan societies is positively correlated with the subsequent presence of matrilineal kinship and polygyny.	Supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author