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- The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History, Revised Edition
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade.
This revised edition of Rawley’s classic, produced with the assistance of Stephen D. Behrendt, includes emended text to reflect the major changes in historiography; current slave trade data tables and accompanying text; updated notes; and the addition of a select bibliography.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- p. viii
- List of Tables
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Abbreviations
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-7
- 2. The Portuguese Pioneers
- pp. 18-44
- 3. Spain and the Slave Trade
- pp. 45-68
- 4. The Dutch and the Danes
- pp. 69-90
- 5. France: The Early Years
- pp. 91-108
- 6. France in the Eighteenth Century
- pp. 109-128
- 7. England Gains Ascendancy
- pp. 129-147
- 8. Bristol
- pp. 148-165
- 9. Liverpool
- pp. 166-188
- 11. The Economics of the Slave Trade
- pp. 212-242
- 12. The Middle Passage
- pp. 243-263
- 13. Americans Enter the Slave Trade
- pp. 264-276
- 15. Rhode Island
- pp. 305-330
- 16. The American Slave Market
- pp. 331-359
- 17. A Summing Up
- pp. 360-374
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803205123
MARC Record
OCLC
60712954
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No