American slavers : merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865 / Sean M. Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelley, Sean M., 1966- author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--United States--History.

Slave trade.

Transatlantic slave trade.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 479 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Maps

Introduction: Ships Coming In, Ships Going Out

Part 1. SLAVERS AS SETTLERS, 1644 -1700

Portudal, Senegambia, the Dry Season, 1645

One Puritan Slavers, 1644 -1700

Two The Madagascar Moment, 1680 -1700

Part Two. SLAVERS AS BRITONS 1700-1775

Newport, Rhode Island, December 5, 1752

Three Newport and the Rise of the Rum Men, 1700-1750

Four Knowledge and Networks, 1751-1775

Part Three SLAVERS AS AMERICANS 1775-1807

Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, September 19, 1775

Five Revolution and Reorientation, 1775-1803

Six Crescendo, 1804 -1807

Part Four LIFE AND DEATH IN THE SLAVE TRADE 1700-1807

Newport, Rhode Island, Present Day

Seven Captivity

Eight Slave-Trading Communities

Part Five SLAVERS AS OUTLAWS 1808-1865

Mediterranean Sea, 1830

Nine Evasion, 1808 -1835

Ten Shills, Hirelings, and True Believers, 1835-1865

Conclusion A Reckoning of Accounts

Chronology

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-460) and index.

ISBN:

9780300263596

0300263597

OCLC:

1346944307