Routes to slavery : direction, ethnicity, and mortality in the transatlantic slave trade /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Eltis, David, 1940-, Richardson, David, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Portland, Or. : Frank Cass, [1997]
Series:	Cass series. Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures.
Subjects:	Slave trade > Africa > History. Slave trade > America > History. Slaves > Mortality. Slave traders > Mortality. Blacks > America > Ethnic identity.

Table of Contents:

The "numbers game" and routes to slavery. West Africa and the transatlantic slave trade: new evidence of long-run trends / David Eltis and David Richardson
Long-term trends in African mortality in the transatlantic slave trade / Herbert S. Klein and Stanley L. Engerman
Crew mortality in the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century / Stephen D. Behrendt
"My own nation": Igbo exiles in the Diaspora / Douglas B. Chambers
"Of a nation which others do not understand": Bambara slaves and African ethnicity in colonial Louisiana, 1718-60 / Peter Caron
The cultural implications of the Atlantic slave trade: African regional origins, American destinations, and New World developments / Philip D. Morgan.