Extending the Frontiers

Extending the Frontiers

Author: David Eltis

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-07

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0300151748

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The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal from the 17th through the 19th century. The book contains research on slave ship voyages, origins, destinations numbers of slaves per port country, year, and period.


Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World

Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World

Author: Wim Klooster

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 9004176209

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The twelve essays explore three connected aspects of European expansion in the period between 1500 and 1900 - migration, trade, and slavery - with some attention given to present-day echoes from that era. The book's first section deals with European migration to transatlantic and Asian destinations, the second and third sections focus on the Atlantic slave trade and representations of slavery, and the final section analyzes the demise and legacy of slavery. The authors reach surprising conclusions: European expansion did not entail major economic benefits; the small scale of the Europeans' intercontinental migration never jeopardized their colonial projects; and the unique popular nature of British abolitionism can be explained in part by the growth of the newspaper press in the mid-eighteenth century, which regularly reported about slave ship revolts.


Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South

Author: Damian Alan Pargas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1107031214

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This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. It analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.


In Motion

In Motion

Author: Howard Dodson

Publisher: National Geographic

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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An illustrated chronicle of the migrations--forced and voluntary--into, out of, and within the United States that have created the current black population.


Final Passages

Final Passages

Author: Gregory E. O'Malley

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1469615347

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Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807


The Atlantic Slave Trade

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Author: Joseph E. Inikori

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1992-04-30

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0822382377

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Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them. Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost to Africa of this forced migration; the role of slavery in the economic development of Europe and the United States; the short-term and long-term effects of the slave trade on black mortality, health, and life in the New World; and the racial and cultural consequences of the abolition of slavery. Some of these essays originally appeared in recent issues of Social Science History; the editors have added new material, along with an introduction placing each essay in the context of current debates. Based on extensive archival research and detailed historical examination, this collection constitutes an important contribution to the study of an issue of enduring significance. It is sure to become a standard reference on the Atlantic slave trade for years to come. Contributors. Ralph A. Austen, Ronald Bailey, William Darity, Jr., Seymour Drescher, Stanley L. Engerman, David Barry Gaspar, Clarence Grim, Brian Higgins, Jan S. Hogendorn, Joseph E. Inikori, Kenneth Kiple, Martin A. Klein, Paul E. Lovejoy, Patrick Manning, Joseph C. Miller, Johannes Postma, Woodruff Smith, Thomas Wilson


Slave Country

Slave Country

Author: Adam Rothman

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2005-04-25

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780674016743

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Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.


Who Abolished Slavery?

Who Abolished Slavery?

Author: Seymour Drescher

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1800730055

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The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings. Many of these acts of rebellion have been studied extensively, yet the ultimate goals of the insurgents remain open for discussion. Recently, several historians have suggested that slaves achieved their own freedom by resisting slavery, which counters the predominant argument that abolitionist pressure groups, parliamentarians, and the governmental and anti-governmental armies of the various slaveholding empires were the prime movers behind emancipation. Marques, one of the leading historians of slavery and abolition, argues that, in most cases, it is impossible to establish a direct relation between slaves’ uprisings and the emancipation laws that would be approved in the western countries. Following this presentation, his arguments are taken up by a dozen of the most outstanding historians in this field. In a concluding chapter, Marques responds briefly to their comments and evaluates the degree to which they challenge or enhance his view.


The Half Has Never Been Told

The Half Has Never Been Told

Author: Edward E Baptist

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2016-10-25

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 0465097685

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A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.