Atlantic Slave Trade

Name: Atlantic Slave Trade
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ISBN: 9780618643561

ISBN-10: 0618643567

ISBN-13: 9780618643561

Edition: 3rd 2011 (Revised)

Authors: David Northrup

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Book details

List price: $86.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 1/1/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Why Were Africans Enslaved?


Economics, Not Racism, as the Root of Slavery



The Cultural Roots of African Slavery



Ideas and Institutions from the Old World



European and African Cultural Differences




The Slave Trade Within Africa


West Africa in the 1790s



African Narratives of Enslavement



West Central Africa



Guns for Slaves



Warfare and Slavery




The Middle Passage


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 the Americas and Europe


The African Roots of American Rice



Problems with the "Black Rice" Thesis



Slavery, Industrialization, and Abolition



Morality, Economics, and Abolition




Africans and Abolition


Questioning Slavery's Morality



Black Abolitionists



African Opponents of Abolition



Slave Revolts and the End of Slavery



Suggestions for Further Reading


Maps



Western Africas c. 1640-1750



The Americas in the Era of the Slave Trade