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The scale of the Atlantic slave trade has been a central issue in
recent debates over transatlantic slavery from 1500 to 1867.
Research has generated a vast amount of data on slaving voyages.
Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and
1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included
in this collection. These are complemented by other papers which
embody quantitative analysis by examining issues relating to the
ethnicity of slaves. In addition to presenting new evidence on
mortality trends in the slave trade and on African influences on
the history of American slave societies, the volume raises
important questions about how slaves reconstructed their identities
outside of their homeland.
The scale of the Atlantic slave trade has been a central issue in
recent debates over transatlantic slavery from 1500 to 1867.
Research has generated a vast amount of data on slaving voyages.
Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and
1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included
in this collection. These are complemented by other papers which
embody quantitative analysis by examining issues relating to the
ethnicity of slaves. In addition to presenting new evidence on
mortality trends in the slave trade and on African influences on
the history of American slave societies, the volume raises
important questions about how slaves reconstructed their identities
outside of their homeland.
A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to
illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Winner
of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award
and PROSE Award "A monumental chronicle of this historical
tragedy."-Dwight Garner, New York Times Between 1501 and 1867, the
transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million
Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic
coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have
created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year
history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps,
especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the
African slave traffic to the New World. The atlas is based on an
online database (www.slavevoyages.org) with records on nearly
35,000 slaving voyages-roughly 80 percent of all such voyages ever
made. Using maps, David Eltis and David Richardson show which
nations participated in the slave trade, where the ships involved
were outfitted, where the captives boarded ship, and where they
were landed in the Americas, as well as the experience of the
transatlantic voyage and the geographic dimensions of the eventual
abolition of the traffic. Accompanying the maps are illustrations
and contemporary literary selections, including poems, letters, and
diary entries, intended to enhance readers' understanding of the
human story underlying the trade from its inception to its end.
This groundbreaking work provides the fullest possible picture of
the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest forced migrations
in history.
Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through
its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African
history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to
slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in
relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of
slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of Afro-European
maritime trade in the fifteenth century to the early stages of
colonial rule in the twentieth century. For Europeans, the export
of agricultural produce represented a potential alternative to the
slave trade from the outset and there was recurrent interest in
establishing plantations in Africa or in purchasing crops from
African producers. This idea gained greater currency in the context
of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade from the late
eighteenth century onwards, when the promotion of commercial
agriculture in Africa was seen as a means of suppressing the slave
trade. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History,
University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History,
University ofWorcester; Silke Strickrodt is a Visiting Research
Fellow in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the
University of Birmingham.
Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through
its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African
history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to
slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in
relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of
slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European
maritime trade in the fifteenth century to theearly stages of
colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export
of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential
alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was
to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops,
there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing
plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them
from independent African producers. Thisidea gained greater
currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the
slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the
promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means
of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade
itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply
provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial
agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves
were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although
Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would
be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved
labour, so that slaveryin Africa persisted into the colonial
period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History,
University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History,
University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research
Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology,
University of Birmingham.
The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic
and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial
Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously
underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave
trade. Spanish America received African captives not only directly
via the transatlantic slave trade but also from slave markets in
the Portuguese, English, Dutch, French, and Danish Americas,
ultimately absorbing more enslaved Africans than any other imperial
jurisdiction in the Americas except Brazil. The contributors focus
on the histories of slave trafficking to, within, and across highly
diverse regions of Spanish America throughout the entire colonial
period, with themes ranging from the earliest known transatlantic
slaving voyages during the sixteenth century to the evolution of
antislavery efforts within the Spanish empire. Students and
scholars will find the comprehensive study and analysis in From the
Galleons to the Highlands invaluable in examining the study of the
slave trade to colonial Spanish America.
The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic
and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial
Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously
underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave
trade. Spanish America received African captives not only directly
via the transatlantic slave trade but also from slave markets in
the Portuguese, English, Dutch, French, and Danish Americas,
ultimately absorbing more enslaved Africans than any other imperial
jurisdiction in the Americas except Brazil. The contributors focus
on the histories of slave trafficking to, within, and across highly
diverse regions of Spanish America throughout the entire colonial
period, with themes ranging from the earliest known transatlantic
slaving voyages during the sixteenth century to the evolution of
antislavery efforts within the Spanish empire. Students and
scholars will find the comprehensive study and analysis in From the
Galleons to the Highlands invaluable in examining the study of the
slave trade to colonial Spanish America.
Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery
in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world.
This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that
slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the
practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout
the medieval millennium. This volume - the final volume in The
Cambridge World History of Slavery - covers the period between the
fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes
by assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars
acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume
demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in
societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze
key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade,
empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social
status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency
and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work
from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The
essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in
the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the
French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some
essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others
provide important insights about the operation of specific slave
economics. There are reviews of slave markets and prices, and
discussions of the efficiency and distributional aspects of
slavery. Perspectives are brought on the transition from slavery
and subsequent adjustments, and the volume contains the work of
prominent scholars, many of whom have been pioneers in the study of
slavery in the Americas.
Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in
its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political,
social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and
economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including
pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in
this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic
development. The issues they address range from nutrition in
pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care;
from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to
workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the
factors that affected the performance of those who reached the
pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that
stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and
higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic
growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key
to the growth of human capital.
Exploring the paradox of the concurrent development of slavery and freedom in the European domains, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas provides a fresh interpretation of the development of the English Atlantic slave system. The book outlines a major African role in the evolution of the Atlantic societies before the nineteenth century and argues that the transatlantic slave trade was a result of African strength rather than African weakness. It also addresses changing patterns of group identity to account for the racial basis of slavery in the early modern Atlantic World.
Exploring the paradox of the concurrent development of slavery and freedom in the European domains, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas provides a fresh interpretation of the development of the English Atlantic slave system. The book outlines a major African role in the evolution of the Atlantic societies before the nineteenth century and argues that the transatlantic slave trade was a result of African strength rather than African weakness. It also addresses changing patterns of group identity to account for the racial basis of slavery in the early modern Atlantic World.
This watershed study is the first to consider in concrete terms the
consequences of Britain's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade.
Why did Britain pull out of the slave trade just when it was
becoming important for the world economy and the demand for labor
around the world was high? Caught between the incentives offered by
the world economy for continuing trade at full tilt and the
ideological and political pressures from its domestic abolitionist
movement, Britain chose to withdraw, believing, in part, that freed
slaves would work for low pay which in turn would lead to greater
and cheaper products. In a provocative new thesis, historian David
Eltis here contends that this move did not bolster the British
economy; rather, it vastly hindered economic expansion as the
empire's control of the slave trade and its great reliance on slave
labor had played a major role in its rise to world economic
dominance. Thus, for sixty years after Britain pulled out, the
slave economies of Africa and the Americas flourished and these
powers became the dominant exporters in many markets formerly
controlled by Britain. Addressing still-volatile issues arising
from the clash between economic and ideological goals, this global
study illustrates how British abolitionism changed the tide of
economic and human history on three continents.
Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of
human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present
- and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas
and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence
of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling
twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged
as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed include the
sources of slaves, the slave trade, the social and economic
functioning of slave societies, the responses of slaves to
enslavement, efforts to abolish slavery continuing to the present
day, the flow of contract labor and other forms of labor control in
the aftermath of abolition, and the various forms of coerced labor
that emerged in the twentieth century under totalitarian regimes
and colonialism.
Volume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection
of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in
Africa, Asia, and the Americas between the opening up of the
Atlantic World and the formal creation of the new nation of Haiti.
The authors, well-known authorities in their respective fields,
place slavery in the foreground of the collection but also examine
other types of coerced labor. Essays are organized both nationally
and thematically and cover the major empires, coerced migration,
slave resistance, gender, demography, law, and the economic
significance of coerced labor. Non-scholars will also find this
volume accessible.
Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what
is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic
slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus's era
to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an open-access
Web site, incorporating newly discovered information from archives
around the Atlantic world. The groundbreaking essays in this book
draw on these new data to explore fundamental questions about the
trade in African slaves. The research findings--that the size of
the slave trade was 14 percent greater than had been estimated,
that trade above and below the equator was largely separate, that
ports sending out the most slave voyages were not in Europe but in
Brazil, and more--challenge accepted understandings of
transatlantic slavery and suggest a variety of new directions for
important further research. For the most complete database on slave
trade voyages ever compiled, visit www.slavevoyages.org.
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together new work
from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The
essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in
the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the
French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some
essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others
provide important insights about the operation of specific slave
economics. There are reviews of slave markets and prices, and
discussions of the efficiency and distributional aspects of
slavery. New perspectives are brought on the transition from
slavery and subsequent adjustments, and the volume contains the
latest work of scholars, many of whom have been pioneers in the
study of slavery in the Americas.
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