The Atlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: 9780521182508 | 0521182506
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 4/26/2010
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This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs.
The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade.
The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade.
| List of Maps, Figures, and Tables | p. viii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Slavery in Western Development | p. 1 |
| American Labor Demand | p. 17 |
| Africa at the Time of the Atlantic Slave Trade | p. 49 |
| The European Organization of the Slave Trade | p. 75 |
| The African Organization of the Slave Trade | p. 105 |
| The Middle Passage | p. 132 |
| Social and Cultural Impact of... MORE | p. 162 |
| The End of the Slave Trade | p. 188 |
| Appendix | p. 213 |
| Bibliographic Essay | p. 219 |
| Index | p. 233 |
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Herbert S. Klein is the author of 22 books and 155 articles in several languages on Latin America and comparative themes in social and economic history. Among these books are The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade (1978) and four studies of slavery, the most recent of which are Slavery and the Economy of So Paulo, 1750-1850 (co-author, 2003); African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (co-author, 2008); and Slavery in Brazil (co-author, 2009), as well as four books on Bolivian history, including A Concise History of Bolivia (2003). He has also published books on such diverse themes as The American Finances of the Spanish Empire, 1680-1809 (1998), and A Population History of the United States (2004).
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