Kayor and Baol

In recent years the appeal is frequently made in academic conferences for studies of the impact of the export slave trade on African societies to include detailed field work, made up of physical observations in slave catchment areas and oral evidence. This chapter aims to examine certain consequences of the slave trade in the Senegalese kingdoms of Kayor and Baol. Archive sources give us a rather unsatisfactory account of the extent and effects of the slave trade in Kayor and Baol. They provide us with sets of figures relating to European intervention in the country’s politics. The main product which Europeans sought after in Kayor and Baol was ‘ebony wood’, that is, slaves. Relations with the borderlands were marked by pillaging of border villages, and wars, whose motive was often to remove the support which these borderland areas had agreed to give to fallen kings or to exiled enemy princes.

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