The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census

CONTENTS

CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Preface xv 1 The Slave Trade and the Numbers Game: A Review of the Literature 3 2 Distribution in Space: The Hispanic Trade 15 3 Distribution in Space: The Colonies of the North Europeans 51 4 Distribution through Time: The Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries 95 5 The English Slave Trade of the Eighteenth Century 127 6 The French Slave Trade of the Eighteenth Century 163 7 Main Currents of the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade 205 8 The Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century 231 9 Major Trends 265 10 A Postscript on Mortality 275 Appendix: Koelle's Linguistic Inventory 289 Bibliography 299 Index 312 ...