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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... recaptives as a group . ( See Table 71. ) It has two known sources of bias . First , recaptives from nearby areas were often able to return home . Sierra Leone as a coastal region is therefore under - represented . Second , the British ...
... recaptives landed alive between 1810 and 1864.8 In addition , the United States navy captured at least 103 slavers between 1837 and 1862. If these carried the same average number of slaves as those captured by the British , the number ...
... recaptives landed by the navy . In the process of building up more than 160 comparative vocabularies of African languages , he also recorded a great deal of other information about his informants - their homeland , their enslavement ...
Table des matières
A Review | 3 |
The Hispanic Trade | 15 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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