The Atlantic slave trade
By: edited by David Northrup.
Contributors: Northrup, David.
Series: Problems in world history
Publisher: D.C. Heath
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Lexington, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Slave-trade -- Africa.; Slave-trade -- Europe.; Slave-trade -- America.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 219-221.
Table of contents: title: Economics, not racism, as the root of slavery / Eric Williams; title: The simultaneous invention of slavery and racism / Winthrop D. Jordan; title: Sugar and slavery from the Old to the New World / David Brion Davis; title: From guesses to calculations / Philip D. Curtin; title: Curtin's calculations refined but not refuted / Paul E. Lovejoy; title: A skeptical view of how much can be known / David Henige; title: A skeptical view of Curtin's and Lovejoy's calculations / Joseph E. Inikori & Stanley L. Engerman; title: An alliance to raid for slaves, 1568 / John Hawkins; title: Trading on the slave coast, 1700 / Willem Bosman; title: Kidnapped, enslaved, and sold away, c. 1756 / Olaudah Equiano; title: A reformed slave trader's regrets, c. 1745-1754 / John Newton; title: Kidnapping and retaliation, 1767-1768 / Richard Story; title: Views of the king of Asante, 1820 / Osei Bonsu; title: Views of a king at Old Calabar, 1850 / Eyo Honesty; title: The middle passage / Malcolm Cowley & Daniel P. Mannix; title: Profits and the causes of mortality / Herbert S. Klein; title: Deaths before the middle passage / Joseph C. Miller; title: The unequal partnership between Africans and Europeans / Walter Rodney; title: Social and demographic transformations / Patrick Manning; title: The economics of African participation in the slave trade / David Eltis; title: The British antislavery squadron in 1822 / E. Gregory & Edward Fitzgerald; title: Capitalism and abolitionism / Eric Williams; title: The idea of progress / Howard Temperley; title: Slave revolts and the end of slavery / Michael Craton.