What impact did the slave trade have on the gold coast of africa?

Gold cost is a former British Colony in the West Africa, today known as the Republic of Ghana. The slave trade had many effects on Africa, mostly bad effects. It tended to increase the amount of war that occurred in West Africa. Slave trade greatly debilitated the economy of West Africa.

Some traditional chiefs, rulers are also involved in slave trade. All the states along the coast or close to the slave trading areas were riven by the conflict between national interest, which demands that no resource necessary to security and prosperity be neglected. The founding charters of kingdoms, which impose on sovereigns the obligation to defend the lives, property and rights of their subjects. The states involved in the slave trade strove to keep it within strict limits.

The demographic impact of the slave trade on West Africa was probably substantially greater than the number actually enslaved because a significant number of Africans perished during slaving raids or while in captivity awaiting transshipment.