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Author:   Jeremy Black (University of Exeter, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.211kg
ISBN:  

9781032423616

ISBN 10:   1032423617
Pages:   566
Publication Date:   30 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction. 1. African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade, Walter Rodney 2. African Societies and the Atlantic Slave Trade, J. D. Fage 3. ‘Here is No Resisting the Country’: The Realities of Power in Afro-European Relations on the West African ""Slave Coast"", Robin Law 4. Hunting for Rents: The Economics of Slaving in Pre-colonial Africa, E. W. Evans and David Richardson 5. Encomienda, African Slavery, and Agriculture in Seventeenth-Century Caracas, Robert J. Ferry 6. The French Slave Trade: An Overview, David Geggus 7. The Economic Origins of Black Slavery in the British West Indies, 1640-1680: A Tentative Analysis of the Barbados Model, Hilary McD. Beckles 8. The Economics of Transition to the Black Labor System in Barbados, 1630-1680, Hilary McD. Beckles and Andrew Downes 9. Trade, Plunder and Economic Development in Early English Jamaica, 1655-89, Nuala Zahedieh 10. Who Bought Slaves in Early America? Purchasers of Slaves from the Royal African Company in Jamaica, 1674-1708, Trevor Burnard 11. ‘To Procure Negroes’: The English Slave Trade to Barbados, 1627-60, Larry Gragg 12. ‘The Countrie Continues Sicklie’: White Mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780, Trevor Burnard 13. The Passion to Exist: Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1650-1832, Michael Craton 14. The Influence of Disease on Race, Logistics and Colonization in the Antilles, Francisco Guerra 15. The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies, 1650-1834, J. R. Ward 16. The First American Boom: Virginia, 1618 to 1630, Edmund S. Morgan 17. From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System, Russell Menard 18. The Tobacco Industry in the Chesapeake Colonies, 1617-1730: An Interpretation, Russell Menard 19. The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, Alden T. Vaughan 20. The English Sugar Islands and the Founding of South Carolina, Richard S. Dunn 21. Black and Mulatto Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Collective Behavior, A. J. R. Russell-Wood. Name Index."

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