| Description |
xvii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Problems in world history |
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Problems in world history.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 219-221. |
| Contents |
Economics, not racism, as the root of slavery / Eric Williams -- The simultaneous invention of slavery and racism / Winthrop D. Jordan -- Sugar and slavery from the Old to the New World / David Brion Davis -- From guesses to calculations / Philip D. Curtin -- Curtin's calculations refined but not refuted / Paul E. Lovejoy -- A skeptical view of how much can be known / David Henige -- A skeptical view of Curtin's and Lovejoy's calculations / Joseph E. Inikori & Stanley L. |
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Engerman -- An alliance to raid for slaves, 1568 / John Hawkins -- Trading on the slave coast, 1700 / Willem Bosman -- Kidnapped, enslaved, and sold away, c. 1756 / Olaudah Equiano -- A reformed slave trader's regrets, c. 1745-1754 / John Newton -- Kidnapping and retaliation, 1767-1768 / Richard Story -- Views of the king of Asante, 1820 / Osei Bonsu -- Views of a king at Old Calabar, 1850 / Eyo Honesty -- The middle passage / Malcolm Cowley & Daniel P. Mannix -- Profits |
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and the causes of mortality / Herbert S. Klein -- Deaths before the middle passage / Joseph C. Miller -- The unequal partnership between Africans and Europeans / Walter Rodney -- Social and demographic transformations / Patrick Manning -- The economics of African participation in the slave trade / David Eltis -- The British antislavery squadron in 1822 / E. Gregory & Edward Fitzgerald -- Capitalism and abolitionism / Eric Williams -- The idea of progress / Howard |
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Temperley -- Slave revolts and the end of slavery / Michael Craton. |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Africa.
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| Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Europe.
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Trafficking in enslaved persons -- America.
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| Subject |
Slave trade -- America.
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| Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons -- Africa.
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| Subject |
Slave trade -- Europe.
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| Added Author |
Northrup, David, 1941-
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| ISBN |
0669331457 paperback |
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