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Slavery and the rise of the Atlantic system /
Placing slavery in the mainstream of modern history, the essays in this survey describe its transfer from the old world, its role in forging the interdependence of the Atlantic economies and its impact on Africa.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge, Mass. :
Cambridge University Press ; W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University,
1993, ©1991.
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| Edition: | 1st pbk. ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Slavery and colonization / Barbara L. Solow
- The Old World background of slavery in the Americas / William D. Phillips, Jr.
- Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492-1713 / Franklin W. Knight
- The Dutch and the making of the second Atlantic system / P.C. Emmer
- Precolonial western Africa and the Atlantic economy / David Eltis
- A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system : the Portuguese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century / Joseph C. Miller
- The apprenticeship of colonization / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
- Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens / P.K. O'Brien and S.L. Engerman
- The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution / Patrick Villiers
- Slavery, trade, and economic growth in eighteenth-century New England / David Richardson
- Economic aspects of the growth of slavery in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / David W. Galenson
- Credit in the slave trade and plantation economies / Jacob M. Price.