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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... 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 was missing from the list , the tonnage was often supplied . With this list , the number of slaves carried per ton of capacity was not the same with all sizes of vessel . The ships were therefore divided into ...
... 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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of the Literature | 3 |
The Hispanic Trade | 15 |
ropeans | 51 |
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