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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... European and American ports preserved long series of records covering the destinations and cargoes of their ships . Still other European records are concerned with the number of slaves authorized or contracted for in order to supply the ...
... European imports that could be bought with slaves , and slaves alone . If the European demand for slaves did indeed force this kind of adaptation on African societies , the slave trade can be shown to have had disastrous consequences ...
... European society as a whole - was far greater than its benefits , again to European society as a whole . European historians have been quick to point out that African slave dealers sold their fellow Africans for private profit ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
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