| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The early years of the slave trade -- The Portuguese pioneers -- Spain and the slave trade -- The Dutch and the Danes -- France: the early years -- France in the eighteenth century -- England gains ascendancy -- Bristol -- Liverpool -- London and the eighteenth-century slave trade -- The economics of the slave trade -- The middle passage -- Americans enter the slave trade -- The American dimensions and the Massachusetts contribution -- Rhode Island -- The American slave market. |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- History.
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Slave trade. |
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History. |
| ISBN |
0393014711 |
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