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Title Slavery and the rise of the Atlantic system / edited by Barbara L. Solow
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, 1991

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Description viii, 355 pages : map ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction Barbara L. Solow -- 1. Slacery and colonization Barbara L. Solow -- 2. The Old World background of slavery in the Americas William D. Phillips, Jr. -- 3. Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492-1713 Franklin W. Knight -- 4. The Cutch and the making of the second Atlantic system P. C. Emmer -- 5. Precolonial western Africa and the Atlantic economy David Eltis -- 6. A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system: The Portufuese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century Joseph C. Miller -- 7. The apprenticeship of colonization Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- 8. Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens P. K. O'Brien and S. L. Engerman -- 9. The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution Patrick Villiers -- 10. Slavery, trade, and economic growth in eighteenth-century New England David Richardson -- 11. Economic aaspects of the growth of slavery in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake David W. Galenson -- 12. Credit in the slave trade and plantation economies Jacob M. Price -- Index
Notes "Originally presented at a conference ... held at Harvard University Sept 4-5, 1988
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Slave trade -- Africa -- Congresses.
Slave trade -- Africa.
Slave trade -- America -- Congresses.
Slave trade -- America.
Slave trade -- Europe -- Congresses.
Slave trade -- Europe.
Slave trade -- History -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Solow, Barbara L. (Barbara Lewis)
LC no. 90044953
ISBN 0521400902
0521457378 (paperback)