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 1848 ...
... figure around 270,000 . Deerr , on the other hand , placed the figure at 1,000,000,25 which is impossibly high , and the direction of recent scholarship has been to reduce the estimate even below the level of the Du Bois figure . It ...
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The Hispanic Trade | 15 |
ropeans | 51 |
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