The Atlantic Slave Trade

by Herbert S. Klein

• ISBN13: 9780521182508
• ISBN10: 0521182506
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East African experiences, as well as all the American colonies and republics that obtained slaves from Africa. It outlines both the common features of this trade and the local differences that developed. It discusses the slave trade's economics, politics, demographic impact, and cultural implications in relationship to Africa as well as America. Finally, it places the slave trade in the context of world trade and examines the role it played in the growing relationship between Asia, Africa, Europe, and America. This new edition incorporates the latest findings of the last decade in slave trade studies carried out in Europe and America. It also includes new data on the slave trade voyages which have just recently been made available to the public.

Author Biography

Herbert S. Klein is the author of 22 books and 155 articles in several languages on Latin America and comparative themes in social and economic history. Among these books are The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade (1978) and four studies of slavery, the most recent of which are Slavery and the Economy of So Paulo, 1750-1850 (co-author, 2003); African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (co-author, 2008); and Slavery in Brazil (co-author, 2009), as well as four books on Bolivian history, including A Concise History of Bolivia (2003). He has also published books on such diverse themes as The American Finances of the Spanish Empire, 1680-1809 (1998), and A Population History of the United States (2004).

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables	p. viii
Introduction	p. xv
Slavery in Western Development	p. 1
American Labor Demand	p. 17
Africa at the Time of the Atlantic Slave Trade	p. 49
The European Organization of the Slave Trade	p. 75
The African Organization of the Slave Trade	p. 105
The Middle Passage	p. 132
Social and Cultural Impact of the Slave Trade on America	p. 162
The End of the Slave Trade	p. 188
Appendix	p. 213
Bibliographic Essay	p. 219
Index	p. 233
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