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(cl) In the readings from The African Slave Trade, historian Basil Davidson aims to employ African sources to describe African conditions. (ev) For instance, when arguing that African social organization often resembled European feudalism, he quotes from an African oral tradition that describes one King demanding of another that he should "at once surrender, admit homage to the king of Segu, pay tribute, and be gone." (p.31) Davidson stresses that this piece of evidence is one "among many; and completely African." (p. 31) (wa) Here, Davidson makes his point that African societies were often organized along feudal lines similar to Europe by quoting from an African tradition in which Africans use essentially feudal concepts like "homage" and "tribute."

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