Trading souls : Europe's transatlantic trade in Africans / Hilary McD. Beckles, Verene A. Shepherd ; with a foreword by P.J. Patterson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beckles, Hilary, 1955-
Other Authors: Shepherd, Verene
Language:English
Published: Kingston, Jamaica ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2007.
Subjects:
Slave trade > Africa.
Slave trade > Caribbean Area.
Slave trade > Europe.
Physical Description:xxvii, 117 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Europe's transatlantic trade in Africans.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Global origins and development of slavery
  • Africa in world development before the transatlantic trade in Africans
  • Africanization of the trade: the transatlantic context
  • Financial and commercial organization
  • Volume and variations
  • Middle passage: death and survival
  • Prices and profitability
  • The transatlantic trade and African economic decline
  • Conclusion: the transatlantic trade and Western economic development.