In this Book

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

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By Eric Nellis
2013
Published by: University of Toronto Press
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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. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World.

While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.

Serving as the third book in the UTP/CHA International Themes and Issues Series, Shaping the New World introduces readers to the topic of African slavery in the New World from a comparative perspective, specifically focusing on the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch slave systems.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title, Copyright

pp. i-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

List of Maps and Tables

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp. ix-x

Preface

pp. xi-xii

A Note on Usage

pp. xiii-xvi

Chronology

pp. xvii-xx

1 The Setting for New World Slavery: An Overview

pp. 1-24

2 The Atlantic Slave Trade

pp. 25-42

3 Slavery and the Shaping of Colonial Latin America: 1500-1800

pp. 43-72

4 The Making of the Black Caribbean, 1650-1800

pp. 73-88

"5 Slavery in Prerevolutionary North America: The Making of the "South""

pp. 89-108

6 The Slave as Person: Women, Children, Family, and Culture

pp. 109-128

7 The Apogee: Revolutions, Abolitionism, Persistence

pp. 129-160

8 Conclusion

pp. 161-166

Select Bibliography

pp. 167-176

Index

pp. 177-183
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