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The transatlantic slave trade : a history

Title
The transatlantic slave trade : a history / James A. Rawley.
Author
Rawley, James A.
Publication
New York : Norton, ©1981.

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Description
xiv, 452 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
A study of slave trade between the 15th to 19th centuries covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade.
Subject
  • Geschichte 1434-1870
  • Slave trade > History
  • Slave trade
  • Sklavenhandel
  • Geschichte
  • Slavenhandel
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The early years of the slave trade -- The Portuguese pioneers -- Spain and the slave trade -- The Dutch and the Danes -- France: the early years -- France in the eighteenth century -- England gains ascendancy -- Bristol -- Liverpool -- London and the eighteenth-century slave trade -- The economics of the slave trade -- The middle passage -- Americans enter the slave trade -- The American dimensions and the Massachusetts contribution -- Rhode Island -- The American slave market.
ISBN
  • 0393014711
  • 9780393014716
LCCN
  • 81002863
  • x280023234
OCLC
  • ocm07329401
  • 7329401
  • SCSB-8940985
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library