Herbert Klein's book makes several distinctive contributions to our
understanding of the slave trade. It offers us the first systematic
comparative study of major European slave traders based exclusively
on archival sources. The author's minimization of the effect of
overcrowded slave ships contributes to a longstanding debate
regarding the mortality rate of the slaves. His emphasis of the
African influences on the character of the slave trade offsets the
more frequent emphasis placed on the European influences.
Furthermore, Klein maintains that basic similarities existed among
the slave-trading practices of all nations, with no one nation
being any better than another. Using demographic and other
quantitative data, Professor Klein describes the trans-Atlantic
slave trade as it was practiced by all of the major European powers
during the period of its maximum development. His work spans a
century and a half of European trading activity and an area from
Senegal to Mozambique in Africa and from the Chesapeake to
Guanabara Bay in the Western hemisphere. Originally published in
1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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