The Atlantic slave trade : a census /
by Philip D. Curtin.
- xix, 338 pages maps 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311).
The slave trade and the numbers game : a review of the literature -- Distribution in space : the Hispanic trade -- Distribution in space : the colonies of the North Europeans -- Distribution through time : the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries -- The English slave trade of the eighteenth century -- The French slave trade of the eighteenth century -- Main currents of the eighteenth-century slave trade -- The slave trade of the nineteenth century -- Major trends -- A postscript on mortality.
A quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade.