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 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 ...
... years represented in the sample were a period when ships were probably loaded more nearly to capacity than was possible during the war years , 1776–83 . and tonnage of ships sailing for Africa and the number 134 THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.
... numbers of ships trading for slaves , numbers of slaves exported , and num- bers of slaves dying in transit . But the number dying en route does not represent the total number of slaves lost from shipwreck , capture at sea by the enemy ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
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