Extending the Frontiers - Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

Klappentext Since 1999! intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus's era to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an open-access Web site! incorporating newly discovered information from archives around the Atlantic world. The groundbreaking essays in this book draw on these new data to explore fundamental questions about the trade in African slaves. The research findings--that the size of the slave trade was 14 percent greater than had been estimated! that trade above and below the equator was largely separate! that ports sending out the most slave voyages were not in Europe but in Brazil! and more--challenge accepted understandings of transatlantic slavery and suggest a variety of new directions for important further research. For the most complete database on slave trade voyages ever compiled! visit www.slavevoyages.org. Zusammenfassung Research efforts have increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A database of slave trade voyages from Columbus' era to mid-nineteenth century is available on an open-access Web site. This text includes essays that draw on these data to explore fundamental questions about trade in African slaves.

Product details

• Authors: David Eltis, David (EDT)/ Richardson Eltis, David Richardson Eltis
• Assisted by: David Eltis (Editor), Eltis David (Editor), David Richardson (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2008
• EAN: 9780300134360
• ISBN: 978-0-300-13436-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Social and cultural history, Slavery & abolition of slavery, International Trade, Slavery and abolition of slavery, International trade and commerce