Captives as Commodities The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Name: Captives as Commodities The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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ISBN: 9780131942158

ISBN-10: 0131942158

ISBN-13: 9780131942158

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lisa A. Lindsay

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For use in one semester/quart courses on The Transatlantic Slave Trade OR as a supplemental text in courses on African history. "Part of Prentice Hall's Connection: Key Themes in World History series." Written based on the author's annual course on slave trade, "Captives as Commodities "examines three key themes: 1) the African context surrounding the Atlantic slave trade, 2) the history of the slave trade itself, and 3) the changing meaning of race and racism. The author draws recent scholarship to provide students with an understanding of Atlantic slave trade.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Foreword


Series Editor's Preface


About the Author


Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Slave Trade and the Western World


Ways of Studying the Slave Trade


Overview of the Atlantic Slave Trade


Connections


The Old World Background to New World Slavery


The Maritime Revolution and European Trade with Africa



Why Did Europeans Buy African Slaves?


Origins: Economics or Racism?


Early Labor Demand in the New World


Northern Europeans and the Expansion of the Slave Trade


The 18th-century Peak of the Slave Trade


Slavery and Racism


Conclusion


Sources



Why Did Africans Sell Slaves?


Common Myths


General Interpretations


The Slave Trade, Wealth, and Power in Africa


The First Two Centuries of Transatlantic Slave Exports from Africa


Expansion of the Trade


Effects of the Slave Trade on Africa


Conclusion


Sources



How Did Enslaved People Cope?


The Henrietta Marie


Passages on Land


Passages at Sea


African Cultures in the New World


Conclusion


Sources



How Did the Slave Trade End?


A Skeptical Query


Profits and the Slave Trade


Ideology and Revolution


Antislavery in the United Kingdom


Revolution in St. Domingue


Final Slave Trade Abolition


What Explains British Antislavery?


Conclusion


Sources


Epilogue: Making Connections-Legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade


The Slave Trade in Modern Memory


Africa


Great Britain


The Americas


Racism in the Americas


Slavery in the Contemporary World


The Big Lessons


Bibliography


Index