sentences:  In urban settings, African slave markets provided an additional source of income for both slave and ex-slave women, who typically monopolized sales.This trend of the marketplace being predominantly the realm of women has its origins in African customs.Wilhelm Muller, a German minister, observed in his travels to the Gold Coast, "Apart from the peasants who bring palm-wine and sugarcane to the market everyday, there are no men who stand in public markets to trade, only women."