David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 368 pp., £37.50, ISBN 0 521 65231 6 (hard covers), £13.95, 65548 X (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 4

174CIVIL WAR history Economic Growth and the Ending ofthe Transatlantic Slave Trade. By David Eltis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 418. $42.00.) Extremely impressive on its own terms, this book is not easy for an ordinary historian to read or review. Eltis among most accomplished cliometricians concerned with analyzing transition from slavery free wage labor throughout Atlantic sphere, crowns more than a dozen years of productive work. Thoughtful useful throughout, in...

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans involved almost every country with Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on 350-year history of kidnapping coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially for volume, that explore detail African traffic to New World. The is based online database (www.slavevoyages.org) records 35,000 slaving voyages - roughly 80...

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John Stuart Mill's comment that the British Caribbean was really a part of domestic economy, because almost all its trade with buyers and sellers, is used to make new assessment importance eighteenth-century slave systems industrialization. If value added strategic linkages sugar industry are compared those other industries, it apparent cultivation were not particularly large, nor did they have stronger growth-inducing ties rest economy.

Broadly speaking, two contrasting models dominate interpretations of Atlantic history. One draws on Old World influences to explain the nature societies and cultures in Americas, while other assigns primacy New environment. stresses continuities, change. The polar extremes are persistence transience, inheritance experience. An emphasis prioritizes cultural baggage that migrants brought with them, whereas a focus experience highlights physical social environments, such as climate, natural...

Was the Slave Trade Dominated by Men? That adult males accounted for major share of transatlantic slave traffic forms one few unquestioned givens that newer historiography slavery shares with old. Because historical record provides such abundant support this view, it is scarcely surprising. In British case, Long stated not a sixth part all slaves shipped were women, and as early mid-seventeenth century, Ligon urged planters to change their policy buy equal ratios men women (few children...

Abstract This article uses the extensive documentation of Africans liberated from slave vessels to explore issues identity and freedom in nineteenth-century Atlantic world. It tracks size, origin, movement Liberated African diaspora, offers a preliminary analysis ‘disposal’ recaptives societies on both sides Atlantic, assesses opportunities had shaping their post-disembarkation experiences. While nearly all were pulled at least partly into wage economy, concludes that recaptive communities...

Nutritional Trends in Africa and the Americas: Heights of Africans, I8I9-I839 Recent attempts to understand differences development slave societies Americas have generated a number studies on growth patterns stature progenitors modern Afro-Americans. Such work provides important insights into living conditions, demographic performances, and, through these, basic cultural parameters black racially mixed societies. Some recent pointed significant between African-born slaves Creoles, data from...

This study is the first to consider consequences of Britain's abolition Atlantic slave trade for British imperial expansion and world economy. It argues that led way in ending just when it was beginning be important economy, there a great need labour around world, shows control reliance on had played major role its empire's rise economic dominance. Contesting view Britain stood benefit from trade, author hindered greatly as result.

We assess Fatah-Black and Van Rossum’s analysis of the Dutch slave trade by detailing six 1750s voyages Middelburg Commercial Company. The costs transporting captives from Africa to Suriname are explored along with their relation economy. also examine implications concept ‘gross margin’, which is central work. find that, given nature transport costs, impact on economy was minimal, more generally that gross margin not a useful measure for testing Williams Thesis.