TY - BOOK AU - Rawley, James A. TI - The transatlantic slave trade: a history SN - 0393014711 AV - HT985 .R38 1981 U1 - 382/.44/09 19 PY - 1981/// CY - New York PB - Norton KW - Slave trade KW - History KW - fast KW - Sklavenhandel KW - gnd KW - Geschichte KW - Slavenhandel KW - gtt KW - nli KW - Africa KW - Slave trade with America, to ca 1850 KW - America KW - Slave trade with Africa, to ca 1850 N1 - 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 N2 - A study of slave trade between the 15th to 19th centuries covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade ER -