Slavery and the rise of the Atlantic system
By: edited by Barbara L. Solow.
Contributors: Solow, Barbara L.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University; Brand: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Slave trade -- Africa -- Congresses.; Slave trade -- Europe -- Congresses.; Slave trade -- America -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: For review see: Roderick A. McDonald, in The economic historic review : a journal of economic and social history, vol. 46, no. 2 (May 1993); p. 423-424. - Hiliary Beckles, in Slavery and Abolition : a journal of slave and post-slave studies, vol. 14, nr. 2 (August 1993); p. 128-129. - The essays in this book (e.g. by Pieter Emmer) describes e.g. the transfer of slavery from the Old World, its role in forging the interdependence of the economics bordering the Atlantic, its effect on the empires of Portugal, The Netherlands, France and Great Britain, and its impact on Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.