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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... samples and the Freetown census suffer alike from under - representation of Central and Southeast Africa . This weakness can be corrected to a degree by reference to the Foreign Office sample of 1845 , which is strong precisely where ...
... Foreign Office sample of slaves imported into the Americas . Thus , Table 71 can be taken to be the best available sample for the larger ethnic groups in West Africa , while Table 74 is the best sample we have for Central and ...
... Foreign Office sample depends on a very large export listed for the 1830's only . This short - term figure could be accurate , and still leave the Freetown sample broadly represen- tative for the early nineteenth century as a whole ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
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