Routes to Slavery - Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Most of this collection pertains to records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, while other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities.

List of contents

English Historical Review -"This collection comprises a significant addition to the extant histography on transatlantic slave trade and the last three essyas in paticular, which pose almost as many questions as they answer, offer some potentially useful pointers for future research."

William and Mary Quarterly - "This collection of essays fully deemonstrates that the chronology and geography of the transatlantic slave trade can now be studies in considerable detail."

International Journal of AfricanHistorical Studies

"a sensitive blend of quantitive analysis, illuminating contemporary documentaion and...a respect for the scholarship of others

About the author

David Eltis, David Richardson

Summary

Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities.

Product details

• Assisted by: David Eltis (Editor), Eltis David (Editor), David Richardson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.1997
• EAN: 9780714643908
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-4390-8
• No. of pages: 160
• Weight: 300 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Slavery and abolition of slavery