Shaping the New World : African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 /

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Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Eric Nellis's remarkable synthesis, Shaping the New World, introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nellis, Eric Guest, 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: North York, Ontario, Canada : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slavery.
Slave trade.
Antislavery movements.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Amerique > Histoire.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique > Histoire.
Esclaves > Amerique > Conditions sociales.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Esclavage > Amerique latine > Histoire.
Esclavage > Caraïbes (Region) > Histoire.
Esclavage > Bresil > Histoire.
Antislavery movements > America > History.
Slave trade > Africa > History.
Slaves > America > Social conditions.
Slavery > United States > History.
Slavery > Latin America > History.
Slavery > Caribbean Area > History.
Slavery > Brazil > History.
Slavery > America > History.
United States.
Latin America.
Caribbean Area.
Brazil.
America.
Africa.
Narrative non-fiction.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The setting for New World slavery : an overview
  • The Atlantic slave trade
  • Slavery and the shaping of colonial Latin America : 1500-1800
  • The making of the black Caribbean, 1650-1800
  • Slavery in prerevolutionary North America : the making of the "South"
  • The slave as person : women, children, family, and culture
  • The apogee : revolutions, abolitionism, persistence
  • Conclusion.

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