Wealth inheritance

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Whatley, WarrenHow the international slave trade underdeveloped Africa

Associated Hypotheses (2)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Whatley, WarrenIn 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.
Whatley, WarrenIn 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.

Associated OCMs

  1. inheritance
  2. serfdom and peonage