Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

ISBN-13: 9780714648200 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 160 str.

David Eltis; David Richardson

Opis

The scale of the Atlantic slave trade has been a central issue in recent debates over transatlantic slavery from 1500 to 1867. Research has generated a vast amount of data on slaving voyages. Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. These are complemented by other papers which embody quantitative analysis by examining issues relating to the ethnicity of slaves. In addition to presenting new evidence on mortality trends in the slave trade and on African influences on the history of American slave societies, the volume raises important questions about how slaves reconstructed their identities outside of their homeland.

Spis treści

English Historical Review -"This collection comprises a significant addition to the extant histography on transatlantic slave trade and the last three essyas in paticular, which pose almost as many questions as they answer, offer some potentially useful pointers for future research."



William and Mary Quarterly - "This collection of essays fully deemonstrates that the chronology and geography of the transatlantic slave trade can now be studies in considerable detail."



International Journal of AfricanHistorical Studies

"a sensitive blend of quantitive analysis, illuminating contemporary documentaion and...a respect for the scholarship of others

O autorze

David Eltis, David Richardson