Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807
ISBN-10
1469615347
ISBN-13
9781469615349
Category
History
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
2014-09-02
Publisher
UNC Press Books
Author
Gregory E. O'Malley

Description

Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then transshipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Drawing on a database of over seven thousand intercolonial slave trading voyages compiled from port records, newspapers, and merchant accounts, O'Malley identifies and quantifies the major routes of this intercolonial slave trade. He argues that such voyages were a crucial component in the development of slavery in the Caribbean and North America and that trade in the unfree led to experimentation with free trade between empires.

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