The Atlantic Slave Trade Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe /

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Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic sla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Engerman, Stanley L., Inikori, J. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slave trade > Congresses.
Esclaves > Commerce > Congrès.
HISTORY / General
Slave trade
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade
  • PART I. THE SOCIAL COST IN AFRICA OF FORCED MIGRATION
  • 2. The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan
  • 3. Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904
  • 4. The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade
  • 5. The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System
  • PART II. ATLANTIC SLAVERY AND THE EARLY RISE OF THE WESTERN WORLD
  • 6. Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England
  • 7 Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The SlaveSugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization
  • 8. The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England
  • 9. British Industry and the West Indies Plantations
  • PART III. ATLANTIC SLAVERY, THE WORLD OF THE SLAVES, AND THEIR ENDURING LEGACIES
  • 10. The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 163°-18°3
  • 11. Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729
  • 12. Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage
  • 13. The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today
  • 14. The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism
  • Index
  • Contributors

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