Extending the frontiers : essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database / edited by David Eltis and David Richardson.

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Other Authors: Eltis, David, 1940-, Richardson, David, 1946-
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008], ©2008.
Subjects:
Slave trade > Africa > History > Sources.
Slave trade > Africa > History > Statistics.
Slave trade > Portugal > History > Sources.
Slave trade > Brazil > History > Sources.
Slave trade > Central America > History > Sources.
Slave trade > Europe > History > Sources.
Slave trade > America > History > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Statistics.
Physical Description:xiii, 377 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Map of the transatlantic slave trade, 1501-1867
  • A new assessment of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis and David Richardson
  • Origins and destinations
  • The foundations of the system: a reassessment of the slave trade to the Spanish Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / António de Almeida Mendes
  • The slave trade to Pernambuco, 1561-1851 / Daniel Barros Domingues da Silva and David Eltis
  • The transatlantic slave trade to Bahia, 1582-1851 / Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro
  • The origins of slaves leaving the Upper Guinea coast in the nineteenth century / Philip Misevich
  • The African origins of slaves arriving in Cuba, 1789-1865 / Oscar Grandío Moráguez
  • National slave trades
  • The significance of the French slave trade to the evolution of the French Atlantic world before 1716 / James Pritchard, David Eltis, and David Richardson
  • The Dutch in the Atlantic world: new perspectives from the slave trade with particular reference to the African origins of the traffic / Jelmer Vos, David Eltis, and David Richardson
  • The slave trade of northern Germany from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries / Andrea Weindl
  • Some wider consequences and implications of the new data
  • The slave trade, colonial markets, and slave families in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ca. 1790-ca. 1830 / Manolo Florentino
  • The suppression of the slave trade and slave departures from Angola, 1830s-1860s / Roquinaldo Ferreira
  • The demographic decline of Caribbean slave populations: new evidence from the transatlantic and intra-American slave trades / David Eltis and Paul Lachance.