The Atlantic Slave Trade
Subtitle: Effects on Economies, Societies, and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe
Contributors: Stanley L. Engerman (Editor)
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Tx)
Published: August 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780822312307
Subjects: International trade; Slavery & emancipation; Congresses; History: American; Slavery; Slave-trade
First sentence: SINCE THE DEBATE in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries between the proslavery interests in Europe and the Americas-the slave traders and slaveholders-and the abolitionist movements, conflicting arguments have been presented on a host of issues relating to slavery and the slave trade.