Rise of African Slavery in the Americas
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- Author(s) Eltis, David
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 353pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the development of the English Atlantic slave trade in the period 1650-1800. Chapters include: 'Slavery and freedom in the early modern world'; 'The English, the Dutch, and transoceanic migration'; 'Europeans and African slavery in the Americas'; 'Gender and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world'; 'Productivity in the slave trade'; 'Africa and Europe in the early modern era'; 'The African impact on the transatlantic slave trade'; 'The English plantation Americas in comparative perspective'; 'Ethnicity in the early modern Atlantic world'; 'Europe and the Atlantic slave systems'; 'Epilogue on abolition'