The slave trade and the numbers game : a review of the literature -- Distribution in space : the Hispanic trade -- Distribution in space : the colonies of the North Europeans -- Distribution through time : the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries -- The English slave trade of the eighteenth century -- The French slave trade of the eighteenth century -- Main currents of the eighteenth-century slave trade -- The slave trade of the nineteenth century -- Major trends -- A postscript on mortality
Summary
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 the American colonies
Analysis
Geschichte 1500-1900
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-311) and index
Notes
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