Extending the Frontiers
Subtitle: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Contributors: David Eltis (Editor); David Richardson (Editor)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780300134360
Subjects: International trade; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; History; History - General History; History: World; Americas (North Central South West Indies); History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); General; Africa; Portugal; Slave trade; Sources; Statistics
Description: "The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal, from the 17th through the 19th century. It contains the most up-to-date and comprehensive research on slave ship voyages, origins, destinations, numbers of slaves per port, country, year, and period. In 1999 the same authors published The Transatlantic Slave Trade Dataset (Cambridge, book and CD), but it did not include data on Brazil and Central America, which this book fills in"--Provided by the publisher.