Atlantic cataclysm : rethinking the Atlantic slave trades /

"The book offers a new interpretation of why the slave trades (transatlantic as well as intra-American) began and ended, questioning the established narratives. A comprehensive and major work for scholars and students that should transform our assessment of the history of the Atlantic World&quo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eltis, David, 1940- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Atlantic slave trading and world history
  • The Americas and Atlantic slave trading: the Iberians and the rest
  • Europe and Atlantic slave trading
  • The Portuguese system
  • Africa, Africans, and the slave trade
  • Abolition: metropolitan reservations, peripheral pressure
  • Freedom?