The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

Essays draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and development of the African diaspora.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Consuming Goods, Consuming People: Reflections on the Transatlantic Slave Trade - David Richardson
Caribbean Slavery - Philip Morgan
"What Happened in the Colonies Stayed in the Colonies": The Dutch and the Slave-Free Paradox - Rik van Welie
The Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Windward Coast of Africa - Jelmer Vos
Winds and Sea Currents of the Atlantic Slave Trade - Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Liberty, Equality, Humanity: Antislavery and Civil Society in Britain and France - Seymour Drescher
US Shipbuilding, Atlantic Markets, and the Structures of the Contraband Slave Trade - Leonardo Marques
The Illegal Slave Trade and One Yoruba Man's Transatlantic Passages from Slavery to Freedom - Kristin Mann
The Mende and Sherbro Diaspora in Nineteenth-Century Southern Sierra Leone - Philip Misevich
The Slow Pace of Slave Emancipation and Ex-slave Equality - Stanley L. Engerman
Creole versus Sugar: The Birth of the Trinidad Nation - Robert Goddard
Child Stealing, Slave Dealing, and African Agency in Colonial Southern Nigeria - Olatunji Ojo
Selected Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the author

Philip Misevich, Kristin Mann

Summary

Essays draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade as well as on the origins and development of the African diaspora.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel B. Domingues Da Si, Kristin Mann, Philip Misevich, Phil Phil Misevich, David Richardson, Jelmer Vos
• Assisted by: Kristin Mann (Editor), Kristin (Customer) Mann (Editor), Dr Philip (Customer) Misevich (Editor), Philip Misevich (Editor), Phil Phil Misevich (Editor), Phil (Customer) Phil Misevich (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781580465601
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-560-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 710 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w, 21 line illus.
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H; Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries