The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

Published by Duke University Press 1992

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

Edited by: Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman
With contributions by: Martin A. Klein and Jan Hogendorn

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822382379

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

Joseph E. Inikori is Professor of History and Associate Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester.

Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester.

Reviews

"This is cutting-edge, state of the art history-economics on the Atlantic slave trade."—Vernon Burton, University of Illinois

"[This volume] will become an important milestone in the investigation of the issue of the extent to which western modern economic growth found its impetus in slavery."—Jay R. Mandle, Colgate University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade Joseph Inikori and Stanley Engerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. THE SOCIAL COST IN AFRICA OF FORCED MIGRATION
2. The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan Martin Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904 Jan Hogendorn and Paul Lovejoy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade Joseph Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System Patrick Manning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
PART II. ATLANTIC SLAVERY AND THE EARLY RISE OF THE WESTERN WORLD
6. Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England Joseph Inikori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
7 Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The SlaveSugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization Ralph Austen and Woodruff Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
8. The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England Ronald Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
9. British Industry and the West Indies Plantations William Darity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
PART III. ATLANTIC SLAVERY, THE WORLD OF THE SLAVES, AND THEIR ENDURING LEGACIES
10. The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 163°-18°3 Johannes Postma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
11. Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729 David Gaspar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
12. Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage Kenneth Kiple and Brian Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
13. The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today Thomas Wilson and Clarence Grim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
14. The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism Seymour Drescher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 423

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Published: April 30, 1992
ISBN: 9780822382379