The Atlantic slave trade : effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe / edited by Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inikori, J. E.

Engerman, Stanley L.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Congresses.

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 412 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them. Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost to Africa of this forced migration; the role of slavery in the economic development of Europe and the United States; the short-ter

Contents:

Introduction : gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman

The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A. Klein

Keeping slaves in place : the secret debate on the slavery question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904 / Jan Hogendorn and Paul E. Lovejoy

The numbers, origins, and destinations of slaves in the eighteenth-century Angolan slave trade / Joseph C. Miller

The slave trade : the formal demography of a global system / Patrick Manning

Slavery and the revolution in cotton textile production in England / Joseph E. Inikori

Private tooth decay as public economic virtue : the slave-sugar triangle, consumerism, and European industrialization / Ralph A. Austen and Woodruff D. Smith.

The slave(ry) trade and the development of capitalism in the United States : the textile industry in New England / Ronald Bailey

British industry and the West Indies plantations / William Darity, Jr.

The dispersal of African slaves in the West by Dutch slave traders, 1630-1803 / Johannes Postma

Slave importation, runaways, and compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729 / David Barry Gaspar

Mortality caused by dehydration during the middle passage / Kenneth F. Kiple and Brian T. Higgins

The possible relationship between the transatlantic slave trade and hypertension in Blacks today / Thomas W. Wilson and Clarence E. Grim

The ending of the slave trade and the evolution of European scientific racism / Seymour Drescher.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference "The Atlantic Slave Trade: Who Gained and Who Lost?" held at the University of Rochester in October 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06272-0

9786613062727

0-8223-8237-7

OCLC:

191222375