The transatlantic slave trade : a history /
James A. Rawley.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Norton, 1981.
- xiv, 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The early years of the slave trade -- The Portuguese pioneers -- Spain and the slave trade -- The Dutch and the Danes -- France: the early years -- France in the eighteenth century -- England gains ascendancy -- Bristol -- Liverpool -- London and the eighteenth-century slave trade -- The economics of the slave trade -- The middle passage -- Americans enter the slave trade -- The American dimensions and the Massachusetts contribution -- Rhode Island -- The American slave market.
A study of slave trade between the 15th to 19th centuries covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade.
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