The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-30

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 1000830985

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Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet – particularly the rise of the sugar economy. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes.

The Atlantic Slave Trade: Seventeenth century
The Atlantic Slave Trade: Seventeenth century

Author: Jeremy Black

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 576

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Dealing with reasons for the end of the slave trade and of slavery, this volume emphasizes abolitionism, and discusses the persistence of the trade, particularly to Brazil and Cuba.

Migrants, Servants and Slaves
Migrants, Servants and Slaves

Author: Russell R. Menard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 342

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Written by one of the leading economic historians of British America, the essays in Migrants, servants, and slaves (several of which have achieved the status of minor classics) address a series of topics of central importance to the field. The central theme is that of the transition from a labor force dominated by English indentured servants, to one composed largely of African slaves. In the enquiry the author examines the changing composition of the servant population in the British North American colonies, the determinants of the pace and volume of servant migration, and the opportunities available to servants who completed their terms. On the subject of slavery, he looks at how the initial investments were financed, and the ability of the slave population to reproduce itself.

Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850
Trade and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850

Author: Stanley L. Engerman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 530

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In addition to discussions of commodity trade in different parts of the world, essays in this collection deal with the effects of governmental policies towards the flows of capital and labour (particularly the movement of slaves from Africa to America and of indentured slaves from Great Britain to mainland North America and the British Caribbean), and the development of trading institutions and their impacts on economic development. Many deal with topics such as the role of slavery and the slave trade on European development, the burdens of mercantilism, the impact of European expansion on the economics of the less developed parts of the world, and the effect of technological changes on the nature and magnitude of world trade.

The Worlds of Unfree Labour
The Worlds of Unfree Labour

Author: Colin A. Palmer

Publisher: Variorum Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 440

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The proliferation of literature on the various forms of human exploitation before the nineteenth century provides the raison d'etre for this seminal collection of essays. The ideological foundations upon which systems of coerced labour were constructed are discussed, and then placed into context by examinations of unfree labour in Europe and the colonies. Attention is also paid to the ways in which the oppressed created their cultural space, and challenged those who held them in servitude.