num_pages: 535
description: This third volume of 'The Atlantic Slave Trade' focuses on the trade's zenith during the 18th century, paying particular attention to the British trade but with other slave trading operations also being assessed.Contents: The Danish Edict of 16th March 1792 to abolish the slave trade, Erik Gobel; The struggle for black liberty: revolution and emancipation in Saint Domingue, J.J. Pierce; Racial equality, slavery and colonial secession during the constituent assembly, D. Geggues; The Societe des Amis des Noirs and the abolition of slavery, D.P. Resnick; Slaves by nature/ domestic animals and human slaves, K. Jacoby; Whose abolition? Popular pressure and the ending of the British slave trade, Seymour Drescher; Capitalism and slavery: a critique, Roger Anstey; British evangelicals, economic warfare and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, 1794-1810, Ann Burton; The planter class and British West Indian sugar production before and after emancipation, William A. Green; The British contribution to the 19th-century transatlantic slave trade, David Eltis; Shipping patterns and mortality in the African slave trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1825-30, Herbert Klein and Stanley Engerman; Fluctuations in age and sex ratios in the transatlantic slave trade, 1663-1864, David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman; The amelioration of British West Indian slavery, 1750-1834: technical change and the plough, J.R. Ward; Slave resistance and white reaction in the British Windward Islands, 1763-1833, Bernard Marshall; The abolition of negro slavery and British parliamentary politics, 1832-3, I. Gross; Abolitionist pressures on the concert of Europe, 1814-32, Betty Fladeland; The road to 1848: interpreting French anti-slavery, Laurent Dubois; Causes of the abolition of negro slavery in Brazil: an interpretive essay, Richard Graham; Brazilian slavery re-examined: a review article, Richard Graham; The contraband slave trade to Brazil, 1831-45, Robert Conrad; Brazilian abolition in comparative perspective, Seymour Drescher; Systems of domination after slavery: the control of land and labour in the British West Indies after 1838, O. Nigel Bolland; Slavery by another name: apprenticed women in Jamaican workhouses in the period 1834-81, H. Altink; Hearing slave voices: the fiscal's reports of Berbice and Demerara-Essequeo, J. Lean and T. Burnard; The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in the Bight of Biafra, David Northrup;
language: English
title: The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume III: Eighteenth Century
titlecomplete: The Atlantic Slave Trade, Volume III: Eighteenth Century
genres: Research
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Ashgate Pub Co