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The rise of African slavery in the Americas /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eltis, David, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Slavery > America > History.
Slave trade > America > History.
Colonies > America > History.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Slavery and freedom in the early modern world
  • The English, the Dutch, and transoceanic migration
  • Europeans and African slavery in the Americas
  • Gender and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world
  • Productivity in the slave trade
  • Africa and Europe in the early modern era
  • The African impact on the transatlantic slave trade
  • The English plantation Americas in comparative perspective
  • Ethnicity in the early modern Atlantic world
  • Europe and the Atlantic slave systems
  • Epilogue on abolition.