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 ...
... slaves , or an annual average capacity of 25,040.8 From 1776 through 1787 , published returns indicate the num- ber and tonnage of British ships clearing for the African coast . " These data can be converted to an estimate of slaves ...
... number of slaves carried per ton of capacity was not the same with all sizes of vessel . The ships were therefore divided into six different ton- nage categories , and the average number of slaves carried by each category was used as an ...
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A Review | 3 |
The Colonies of the North | 51 |
The Fifteenth Sixteenth | 95 |
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