The Atlantic slave trade /

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Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2002.
Description:xvii, 203 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Problems in world history
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4617119
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Other authors / contributors:Northrup, David, 1941-
ISBN:0618116249
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-203).
Table of Contents:
  • I. Why Were Africans Enslaved?
  • Economics Not Racism, as the Root of
  • The Simultaneous Invention of
  • Sugar and Slavery from the Old to the New World
  • The Cultural Roots of
  • II. The Slave Trade Within Africa Mungo Park,West Africa in the 1790s
  • African Narratives of Enslavement
  • West Central Africa Joseph E. Inikori,Guns for Slaves
  • III. The Middle Passage Olaudah Equiano,An African's Ordeal
  • An Abolitionist's Evidence
  • A Historian's Recount
  • Profits and Losses
  • The Achievements of the "Numbers Game"
  • IV. Effects in Africa
  • An Alliance to Raid for Slaves
  • The Unequal Partnership Between Africans and Europeans
  • Social and Demographic Transformations
  • Africa's Effects on the Slave Trade
  • V. Effects in Europe and the Americas
  • Slavery, Industrialization, and Abolition
  • The Williams Thesis after Fifty Years
  • An African Nation in Colonial Louisiana
  • African Cultural Dynamics in the Americas
  • VI. Abolition Adrian Hastings,Abolitionists Black and White
  • African Opponents of Abolition
  • The Idea of Progress
  • Slave Revolts and the End of Slavery
  • Suggestions for Further Reading