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Routes to slavery : direction, ethnicity, and mortality in the transatlantic slave trade

Title
Routes to slavery : direction, ethnicity, and mortality in the transatlantic slave trade / edited by David Eltis and David Richardson.
Publication
London ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Eltis, David, 1940-
  • Richardson, David, 1946-
Description
151 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures
Uniform Title
Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures
Subject
  • Geschichte 1595-1867
  • Slave trade > Africa > History
  • Slave trade > America > History
  • Enslaved persons > Mortality
  • Slave traders > Mortality
  • Black people > America > Ethnic identity
  • Black people > Race identity > America
  • 15.80 history of Africa
  • 15.85 history of America
  • Black people > Ethnic identity
  • Slave trade
  • Enslaved persons > Mortality
  • Sklavenhandel
  • Sterblichkeit
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Ethnische Identität
  • Ausstellung
  • Slavenhandel
  • Traite des esclaves > Atlantique (région) > Histoire
  • Esclavage > Afrique > Histoire
  • Esclavage > Amérique > Histoire
  • Africa
  • America
  • Afrika
  • Amerika
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • "This group of studies first appeared in a special issue on Direction, ethnicity, and mortality in the transatlantic slave trade in slavery and aboliton, vol. 8, no. 1"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The "numbers game" and routes to slavery. West Africa and the transatlantic slave trade: new evidence of long-run trends / David Eltis and David Richardson -- Long-term trends in African mortality in the transatlantic slave trade / Herbert S. Klein and Stanley L. Engerman -- Crew mortality in the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century / Stephen D. Behrendt -- "My own nation": Igbo exiles in the Diaspora / Douglas B. Chambers -- "Of a nation which others do not understand": Bambara slaves and African ethnicity in colonial Louisiana, 1718-60 / Peter Caron -- The cultural implications of the Atlantic slave trade: African regional origins, American destinations, and New World developments / Philip D. Morgan.
ISBN
  • 0714648205
  • 9780714648200
  • 0714643904
  • 9780714643908
LCCN
97011887
OCLC
  • ocm36767914
  • 36767914
  • SCSB-14662151
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library