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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... tion . Most asiento contracts gave the quantities to be delivered in piezas de India , not individual slaves . A pieza de India was a measure of potential labor , not of individuals . For a slave to qualify as a pieza , he had to be a ...
... tion may be faulty , it is also possible that all three of the other sets of estimates are a little too high . Col. 2 , for example , would be too high if a considerable number of ships were unable to load to capacity in Africa . The ...
... tion of the Guinea total into its subdivisions following Gaston Martin's indications for 1764-70.16 For the 1770's , the total French slave trade can be estimated in much the same way . Only this time it is necessary to assess the ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
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