| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 770 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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History E-Book Project.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-745) and index. |
| Contents |
The people of Western Central Africa -- The value of material goods and people in African political ecnomies: an interpretation --Foreign imports and their uses in the political economy of Western Central Africa -- The production of people: political consolidation and the release of dependents for export -- The demography of slaving -- Bridging the gap: the structure of the African commercial and transport sector -- A history of competition, comparative advantage, and credit: the African commercial and transport sector in the eighteenth century -- Casualties of merchant capital: the Luso-Africans in Angola -- The white man's grave: expatriate merchants in Luanda -- Floating tombs: the maritime trade of the Brazilians. |
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Voyage of no return: the experience of enslavement: flight disease, and death -- Trading on the fringes: the rise of Brazilian interests in the Southern Atlantic slave trade to the 1770s -- Toward the center: Brazilian investment in the Southern Atlantic trade, ca. 1780-1810 -- Back to trading on the fringes: liberalism, abolition, and the British in Brazil in the nineteenth century -- The slave duty contracts in the Southern Atlantic, before 1760 -- "Freedom of trade" in the Pombal Era, 1755-1772 -- The dry well, 1772-1810 -- Lisbon's lost colony, 1810-1830 -- The economics of mortality. |
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Appendix A. Comparative estimates of basic labor rations --Appendix B. Estimate of mortality among slaves awaiting sale in the new world -- Appendix C. Principal authors of documentation cited. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Portugal -- History.
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Slave trade. |
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Portugal. |
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History. |
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Slave trade -- Angola -- History.
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Angola. |
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Slave trade -- Brazil -- History.
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Brazil. |
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Slave traders -- Angola -- History.
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Slave traders. |
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Portugal -- Commercial policy -- History.
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Commercial policy. |
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Brazil -- Commerce -- History.
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Commerce. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1730-1830. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miller, Joseph Calder. Way of death. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1988 029911564X (DLC) 87040368 |
| ISBN |
0299115607 |
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9780299115609 |
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9780299115630 (electronic book) |
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0299115631 (electronic book) |
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029911564X (paperback) |
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9780299115647 (paperback) |
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