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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... figure could be nothing but a shot in the dark . The men - on- the - spot , furthermore , tended to inflate the export figures from their own part of Africa . They looked to future prospects rather than present reality , or they hoped ...
... figure for Cuba alone . The resulting figure of 33,800 appears to be in line with the British . data for Havana alone , and to differ only slightly from the total of known slave ships published in 1845. It is therefore accepted . For ...
... figure for these two years is 19,200 , giving a general estimate of 86,200 for the decade 1721–30 . With the Nantes sample at about 40 per cent of the whole French trade , the sample is used as a guide to the proba- ble distribution of ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
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