ISBN:
0822382377
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0822312301
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0822312433
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9780822382379
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9780822312307
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9780822312437
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 412 p)
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ill
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22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Atlantic Slave Trade : Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas and Europe
DDC:
306.3/62
Keywords:
Slave trade Congresses
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them. Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost to Africa of this forced migration; the role of slavery in the economic development of Europe and the United States; the short-ter
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade; PART I THE SOCIAL COST IN AFRICA OF FORCED MIGRATION; 2 The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan; 3 Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904; 4 The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade; 5 The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System; PART II ATLANTIC SLAVERY AND THE EARLY RISE OF THE WESTERN WORLD
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England7 Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The Slave-Sugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization; 8 The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England; 9 British Industry and the West Indies Plantations; PART III ATLANTIC SLAVERY, THE WORLD OF THE SLAVES, AND THEIR ENDURING LEGACIES; 10 The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 1630-1803; 11 Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage13 The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today; 14 The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism; Index; Contributors
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Papers presented at a conference "The Atlantic Slave Trade: Who Gained and Who Lost?" held at the University of Rochester in October 1988
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822382379
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822382379
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