A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
James Walvin. CHAPTER. 20. Slavery. after. abolition. Over the course of the nineteenth century, anti-slavery (abolition) seemed to be universally triumphant. Slavery was brought to an end across the Americas and was challenged around ...
(1995): Historia Geral de Cabo Verde (1560–1650), Vol. II. Lisbon: Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical. ... (2008): Swimming the Christian Atlantic: Judeoconversos, Afroiberians and Amerindians in the Seventeenth Century.
37 Slave prices varied markedlyin the years of Rogers'sactivity. Besides hinging upon considerations of ... The cargo also contained a few slaves in indifferent health,“which we do not imagine will fetch more than £10 Ster'g each.
The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal from the 17th through the 19th century.
This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade.
In this magisterial work, historian David Richardson challenges claims that this event was largely due to the actions of particular individuals and emphasizes instead that abolition of the British slave trade relied on the power of ordinary ...
This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields.
Examines the history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade, 1700 to 1807.
Taking a truly Atlantic perspective, Marques outlines the multiple forms of U.S. involvement in this traffic amid various legislation and shifting international relations, exploring the global processes that shaped the history of this ...
Joinville was told that Souza had two thousand slaves in his barracoons, a thousand women in his harem, and that he had fathered eighty male children: "forts beaux mulatres," very well brought up, and dressed in white suits and panama ...