Segments of Slavery

The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa p. 455
Western African economies were increasingly connected to the European world
African population was decreasing
Africans who benefited most from the traffic  were not investing in the productive capacities of African societies
African authorities sought to take advantage new commercial opportunities and manage the slave trade in to their own interests
Benin exported fewer than 1.000 slaves a year, uniqueness lay in its relatively successful efforts to avoid deep involvement in slave trade
Dahomey on the other hand, became chief business of the state until the 19th century

The Atlantic Slave Trade p.449
Children could inherit the slave status of their parents
Males were favored 2 to 1 to female slaves
some slaves in the Islamic world acquired prominent military or political status 
Although most slaves worked in their owners households, farms, shops, laboring in large-scale agricultural industrial enterprises
slaves were treated as dehumanized property
Ancient Greece  took into consideration affirming values of human freedom and equality
Atlantic slavery came to be identified with Africa and "blackness""
Sugar was an essential factor leading to slavery
""Slav"became "slave"in European language
Africans were cheap slaves and skilled farmers as well as had a strong immunity to both tropical and European diseases, they were not Christians, close at hand, readily available