The rise of African slavery in the Americas
Why were the countries with the most developed institutions of individual freedom also the leaders in establishing the most exploitative system of slavery that the world has ever seen? To provide answers to this question, this book examines the development of the English Atlantic slave system betwee...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press
2000.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3971150x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Slavery and freedom in the early modern world
- The English, the Dutch, and transoceanic migration
- Europeans and African slavery in the Americas
- Gender and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world
- Productivity in the slave trade
- Africa and Europe in the early modern era
- The African impact on the transatlantic slave trade
- The English plantation Americas in comparative perspective
- Ethnicity in the early modern Atlantic world
- Europe and the Atlantic slave systems
- On abolition
- The age and sex of Africans in the transatlantic slave trade, 1663-1713
- Slave-price appendix
- Merchandise imported to west Africa, 1662-1713
- Valuations of produce exports from the Leeward Islands in 1700.
