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1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most up-to-date and comprehensive research on slave ship voyages, origins, destinations, numbers of slaves per port, country, year, and period. In 1999 the same authors published The Transatlantic Slave Trade Dataset (Cambridge, book and CD), but it did not include data on Brazil and Central America, which this book fills in"--Provided by the publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Map of the transatlantic slave trade, 1501-1867 -- A new assessment of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis and David Richardson -- Origins and destinations -- The foundations of the system: a reassessment of the slave trade to the Spanish Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / António de Almeida Mendes -- The slave trade to Pernambuco, 1561-1851 / Daniel Barros Domingues da Silva and David Eltis -- The transatlantic slave trade to Bahia, 1582-1851 / Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro -- The origins of slaves leaving the Upper Guinea coast in the nineteenth century / Philip Misevich -- The African origins of slaves arriving in Cuba, 1789-1865 / Oscar Grandío Moráguez -- National slave trades -- The significance of the French slave trade to the evolution of the French Atlantic world before 1716 / James Pritchard, David Eltis, David Richardson -- The Dutch in the Atlantic world : new perspectives from the slave trade with particular reference to the African origins of the traffic / Jelmer Vos, David Eltis, David Richardson -- The slave trade of northern Germany from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries / Andrea Weindl -- Some wider consequences and implications of the new data -- The slave trade, colonial markets, and slave families in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ca. 1790-ca. 1830 / Manolo Florentino -- The suppression of the slave trade and slave departures from Angola, 1830s-1860s / Roquinaldo Ferreira -- The demographic decline of Caribbean slave populations : new evidence from the transatlantic and intra-American slave trades / David Eltis and Paul Lachance. |
| Summary |
"The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most up-to-date and comprehensive research on slave ship voyages, origins, destinations, numbers of slaves per port, country, year, and period. In 1999 the same authors published The Transatlantic Slave Trade Dataset (Cambridge, book and CD), but it did not include data on Brazil and Central America, which this book fills in"--Provided by the publisher. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- Sources.
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Slave trade. |
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Africa. |
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History. |
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Sources.
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Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- Statistics.
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Statistics.
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Slave trade -- Portugal -- History -- Sources.
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Portugal. |
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Slave trade -- Brazil -- History -- Sources.
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Brazil. |
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Slave trade -- Central America -- History -- Sources.
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Central America. |
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Slave trade -- Europe -- History -- Sources.
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Europe. |
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Slave trade -- America -- History -- Sources.
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America. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Essays.
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Essays.
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Statistics.
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| Added Author |
Eltis, David, 1940- editor.
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Richardson, David, 1946- editor.
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Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database |
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Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Extending the frontiers. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 9780300134360 (DLC) 2007043711 (OCoLC)179832364 |
| ISBN |
9780300151749 (electronic book) |
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0300151748 (electronic book) |
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0300134363 |
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9780300134360 |
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1282352857 |
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9781282352858 |
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