The Transatlantic Slave Trade A History, Revised Edition / James A. Rawley with Stephen D. Behrendt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawley, James A.

Contributor:

Behrendt, Stephen D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--History.

Slave trade.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 441 p., [4] p. of plates ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Contents:

The early years of the slave trade

The Portuguese pioneers

Spain and the slave trade

The Dutch and the Danes

France: the early years

France in the eighteenth century

England gains ascendancy

Bristol

Liverpool

London and the eighteenth-century slave trade

The economics of the slave trade

The middle passage

Americans enter the slave trade

The American dimensions and the Massachusetts contribution

Rhode Island

The American slave market

A summing up.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-425) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803205123

0803205120

OCLC:

60712954