The Atlantic Slave Trade: A CensusCurtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests revision of currently held opinions concerning the place of the slave trade in the economies of the Old World nations and their American colonies. |
Contents
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The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
The English Slave Trade of the Eighteenth Century | 127 |
The French Slave Trade of the Eighteenth Century | 163 |
Main Currents of the EighteenthCentury Slave Trade | 205 |
The Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century | 231 |
Major Trends | 265 |