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Winner of the 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title AwardThis volume offers the first set of essays on slave trading in the South Atlantic. These studies show that the Angola-Brazil complex was not the single commercial axis in this region and that Portuguese-Brazilian merchants were not alone in this business.
About the author
David Richardson graduated from Manchester University and is Professor Emeritus in Economic History at the University of Hull, where he was founder and first Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (2004-12). He was co-author with David Eltis of the multiple award-winning
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (2010) and of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (www.slavevoyages.com) (2008) on which it was based.
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, Ph.D. (2009), Leiden University, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Macau (China). She is a member of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations at the International Institute of Social History of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull (UK).
Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa: Empires, Merchants and the Atlantic System, 1580-1674, (2011) is her latest book.
