Final passages : the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619-1807 / Gregory E. O'Malley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Malley, Gregory E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Great Britain--History.

Slave trade.

Colonies.

History.

Great Britain.

Slave trade--Colonies--Great Britain--America--History.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

America.

Physical Description:

ix, 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction

Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade

Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720

Captive Markets for Captive People: Legal Dispersals of Africans in a Peripheral Economy, ca. 1640-1700

To El Dorado via Slave Trade: Opening Commerce with Foreign Colonies, ca. 1660-1713

The North American Periphery of the Caribbean Slave Trade, ca. 1700-1763

A for Asiento: The Slave Trade from British to Foreign Colonies, ca. 1713-1739

Entrepots and Hinterlands: African Migration to the North American Backcountry, ca. 1750-1807

American Slave Trade, American Free Trade: Climax of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1750-1807

Epilogue: Defending the Human Commodity; or, Diversity and Diaspora

Appendix: Estimating the Scale of the Intercolonial Slave Trade

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469615349

1469615347

OCLC:

860944063