The Atlantic Slave Trade: A CensusUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1969 - 338 pages Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade. Its basic evidence suggests revision of currently held opinions concerning the place of the slave trade in the economies of the Old World nations and their American colonies. |
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... number of individuals exceeding the number of piezas by only 4.3 per cent.11 11 A second cause for overestimation in ... slaves than required , the unfilled demand created a market for smug- gled slaves that met no quality standards and ...
... number of slave ships outfitted in American ports . The ships were certainly built , and they certainly carried slaves , but they were more likely to take them to Cuba or Brazil than to the United States . Warren S. Howard's study of ...
... slaves , or an annual average capacity of 25,040.8 From 1776 through 1787 , published returns indicate the num- ber and tonnage of British ships clearing for the African coast . " These data can be converted to an estimate of slaves ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Hispanic Trade | 15 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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