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The Atlantic Slave Trade
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Description for The Atlantic Slave Trade
Paperback. Editor(s): Inikori, Joseph E.; Engerman, Stanley L. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSA; HBTS; KCLT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them.
Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost to Africa of this forced migration; the role of slavery in the economic development of Europe and the United States; the short-term and long-term effects of the slave ... Read more
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them.
Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost to Africa of this forced migration; the role of slavery in the economic development of Europe and the United States; the short-term and long-term effects of the slave ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822312437
SKU
V9780822312437
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Ref
99-1
About Inikori
Joseph E. Inikori is Professor of History and Associate Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester. Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester.
Reviews for The Atlantic Slave Trade
"This is cutting-edge, state of the art history-economics on the Atlantic slave trade."—Vernon Burton, University of Illinois "[This volume] will become an important milestone in the investigation of the issue of the extent to which western modern economic growth found its impetus in slavery."—Jay R. Mandle, Colgate University