The Atlantic Slave Trade

by Northrup, David

• ISBN13: 9780618116249
• ISBN10: 0618116249
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-26
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

A volume in the Problems in World History series, this book features a variety of secondary-source essays that are carefully edited for both content and length, making this single volume a convenient alternative to course packets or multiple monographs. Most often used as a supplementary text for upper-level courses, The Atlantic Slave Trade includes chapter introductions, essay introductions, and annotated bibliographies.

Table of Contents

Why Were Africans Enslaved?

Economics Not Racism, as the Root of

The Simultaneous Invention of

Sugar and Slavery from the Old to the New World

The Cultural Roots of

The Slave Trade Within Africa Mungo Park,West Africa in the 1790s

African Narratives of Enslavement

West Central Africa Joseph E. Inikori,Guns for Slaves

The Middle Passage Olaudah Equiano,An African's Ordeal

An Abolitionist's Evidence

A Historian's Recount

Profits and Losses

The Achievements of the "Numbers Game"

Effects in Africa

An Alliance to Raid for Slaves

The Unequal Partnership Between Africans and Europeans

Social and Demographic Transformations

Africa's Effects on the Slave Trade

Effects in Europe and the Americas

Slavery, Industrialization, and Abolition

The Williams Thesis after Fifty Years

An African Nation in Colonial Louisiana

African Cultural Dynamics in the Americas

Abolition Adrian Hastings,Abolitionists Black and White

African Opponents of Abolition

The Idea of Progress

Slave Revolts and the End of Slavery

Suggestions for Further Reading

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