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

David Eltis, David Richardson

Psychology Press, 1997 - Business & Economics - 151 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity, and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade; Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures
• Editors: David Eltis, David Richardson
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1997
• ISBN: 0714648205, 9780714648200
• Length: 151 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / International / General; History / Africa / General; History / General; History / United States / General; Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Social Science / Black Studies (Global)