Way of death : merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830 / Joseph C. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Joseph Calder.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave traders--Angola--History.

Slave traders.

Slave trade--Angola--History.

Slave trade.

Slave trade--Brazil--History.

Slave trade--Portugal--History.

Brazil--Commerce--History.

Brazil.

Portugal--Commercial policy--History.

Portugal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 770 pages) illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This acclaimed history of Portuguese and Brazilian slaving in the southern Atlantic is now available in paperback. "A landmark study in the history of the Atlantic slave trade. It will be an essential reference for anyone who writes on the trade, from whatever perspective, for years to come."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Maps

Tables and Figures

Translation of a Slave Inventory

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations Used in Notes

Part 1. Africa: Births and Deaths

Chapter 1: The People of Western Central Africa

Chapter 2: The Value of Material Goods and People in African Political Economies: An Interpretation

Chapter 3: Foreign Imports and Their Uses in the Political Economy of Western Central Africa

Chapter 4: The Production of People: Political Consolidation and the Release of Dependents for Export

Chapter 5: The Demography of Slaving

Part 2. Traders: On the Way

Chapter 6: Bridging the Gap: The Structure of the African Commercial and Transport Sector

Chapter 7: A History of Competition, Comparative Advantage, and Credit: The African Commercial and Transport Sector in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 8: Casualties of Merchant Capital: The Luso-Africans in Angola

Chapter 9: The White Man's Grave: Expatriate Merchants in Luanda

Chapter 10: Floating Tombs: The Maritime Trade of the Brazilians

Chapter 11: Voyage of No Return: The Experience of Enslavement: Flight, Disease, and Death

Part 3. Brazil: The Last Stop

Chapter 12: Trading on the Fringes: The Rise of Brazilian Interests in the Southern Atlantic Slave Trade to the 1770s

Chapter 13: Toward the Center: Brazilian Investment in the Southern Atlantic Trade, ca. 1780-1810

Chapter 14: Back to Trading on the Fringes: Liberalism, Abolition, and the British in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century

Part 4. Portugal: Merchants of Death

Chapter 15: The Slave Duty Contracts in the Southern Atlantic, Before 1760

Chapter 16: "Freedom of Trade" in the Pombal Era, 1755-1772

Chapter 17: The Dry Well, 1772-1810

Chapter 18: Lisbon's Lost Colony, 1810-1830

Part 5. Conclusion

Chapter 19: The Economics of Mortality.

Appendix A: Comparative Estimates of Basic Labor Rations

Appendix B: Estimate of Mortality among Slaves Awaiting Sale in the New World

Appendix C: Principal Authors of Documentation Cited

Glossary of Foreign Terms Used in the Text

Glossary of Portuguese Terms Used in the Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612622809

9780299115630

0299115631

9781282622807

1282622803

OCLC:

62207083

Publisher Number:

2027/heb02634 hdl