Traders in men : merchants and the transformation of the transatlantic slave trade / Nicholas Radburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radburn, Nicholas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave ships--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Slave ships.

Slave ships--United States--History--18th century.

Slave trade--History--18th century.

Slave trade.

Slave traders--Africa.

Slave traders.

Slave traders--America--History.

Slave traders--Great Britain.

Slave traders--United States--History.

Transatlantic slave trade--18th century--History.

Transatlantic slave trade.

Africa.

America.

Great Britain.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 341 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Merchants and the transformation of the transatlantic slave trade

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

During the eighteenth century, Britain's slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the eve of the American Revolution, grown into an Atlantic-wide system through which fifty thousand men, women, and children were enslaved every year. In this sweeping new history, Nicholas Radburn explains how thousands of slaving merchants in Africa, Britain, and the British Americas collectively created this cancerous system by devising highly efficient, but also violent, new business methods. African brokers developed commercial techniques that facilitated the enslavement and sale of millions of people. Britons invented shipping methods that quelled enslaved people's constant resistance on the Middle Passage. And American slave traders formulated brutal techniques through which shiploads of people could be quickly sold to a variety of colonial buyers. Truly Atlantic-wide in its vision, this study shows how the slave trade became one of the most important phenomena in world history and dragged millions of people into the trade's terrible vortex.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

1. Connecting the Frontiers: British Merchants, African Middlemen, and the Making of Atlantic Slaving Ports

2. Cross-Cultural Trade and the Sale of Enslaved People in Atlantic Africa

3. Merchants and the Creation of the Floating Dungeon

4. Guinea Factors and the Forced Migrations of Enslaved People within the Americas

5. Many Middle Passages: Merchants, Planters, and the American Slave Trade

EPILOGUE: Traders in Men during the Age of Revolutions, circa 1775-1808

Appendixes

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Radburn, Nicholas Traders in Men

ISBN:

9780300271768

030027176X

OCLC:

1390561317