Routes to Slavery

Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7146-4820-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures

Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eltis, David

Richardson, David

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

English Historical Review -"This collection comprises a significant addition to the extant histography on transatlantic slave trade and the last three essyas in paticular, which pose almost as many questions as they answer, offer some potentially useful pointers for future research."

William and Mary Quarterly - "This collection of essays fully deemonstrates that the chronology and geography of the transatlantic slave trade can now be studies in considerable detail."

International Journal of AfricanHistorical Studies

"a sensitive blend of quantitive analysis, illuminating contemporary documentaion and.a respect for the scholarship of others

Über Autor(innen)

David Eltis, David Richardson