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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... piezas and individuals was much closer . One cargo brought into Cartagena by the South Sea Company in 1715 , for example , contained 174 individuals , as- sessed as 166 % piezas , the number of individuals exceeding the number of piezas ...
... piezas per ship.13 To this recorded total of 36,294 piezas for 1551-95 ( 810 annual average ) , it might be appropriate to add 500 slaves a year for the period 1521-50— the total of 15,000 being intentionally large in order to account ...
... piezas de India authorized . If 85 per cent is taken as the norm , this means that the average ship of 118 toneladas would have carried 139 piezas . ( See Table 31. ) When the Chaunu totals are recalculated in this way to give ...
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of the Literature | 3 |
The Hispanic Trade | 15 |
ropeans | 51 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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