The Atlantic Slave Trade (eBook, ePUB)

Volume II Seventeenth Century
Redaktion: Black, Jeremy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet - particularly the rise of the sugar economy. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 570
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000830989
• Artikelnr.: 66678401

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade
Walter Rodney 2. African Societies and the Atlantic Slave Trade
J. D. Fage 3. 'Here is No Resisting the Country': The Realities of Power in Afro-European Relations on the West African "Slave Coast"
Robin Law 4. Hunting for Rents: The Economics of Slaving in Pre-colonial Africa
E. W. Evans and David Richardson 5. Encomienda
African Slavery
and Agriculture in Seventeenth-Century Caracas
Robert J. Ferry 6. The French Slave Trade: An Overview
David Geggus 7. The Economic Origins of Black Slavery in the British West Indies
1640-1680: A Tentative Analysis of the Barbados Model
Hilary McD. Beckles 8. The Economics of Transition to the Black Labor System in Barbados
1630-1680
Hilary McD. Beckles and Andrew Downes 9. Trade
Plunder and Economic Development in Early English Jamaica
1655-89
Nuala Zahedieh 10. Who Bought Slaves in Early America? Purchasers of Slaves from the Royal African Company in Jamaica
1674-1708
Trevor Burnard 11. 'To Procure Negroes': The English Slave Trade to Barbados
1627-60
Larry Gragg 12. 'The Countrie Continues Sicklie': White Mortality in Jamaica
1655-1780
Trevor Burnard 13. The Passion to Exist: Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies
1650-1832
Michael Craton 14. The Influence of Disease on Race
Logistics and Colonization in the Antilles
Francisco Guerra 15. The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies
1650-1834
J. R. Ward 16. The First American Boom: Virginia
1618 to 1630
Edmund S. Morgan 17. From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System
Russell Menard 18. The Tobacco Industry in the Chesapeake Colonies
1617-1730: An Interpretation
Russell Menard 19. The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
Alden T. Vaughan 20. The English Sugar Islands and the Founding of South Carolina
Richard S. Dunn 21. Black and Mulatto Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Collective Behavior
A. J. R. Russell-Wood. Name Index.