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Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World.
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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new edition In the first edition of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade , two leading historians explored details of the 350-year history of African slave traffic to the New World.
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Extending the Frontiers
Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus's era to the mid-nineteenth century is now available on an open-access Web site, incorporating newly discovered information from archives around the Atlantic world. The groundbreaking essays in this book draw on these new data to explore fundamental questions about the trade in African slaves. The research findings-that the size of the slave trade was 14 percent greater than had been estimated, that trade above and below the equator was largely separate, that ports sending out the most slave voyages were not in Europe but in Brazil, and more-challenge accepted understandings of transatlantic slavery and suggest a variety of new directions for important further research.
For the most complete database on slave trade voyages ever compiled, visit www.slavevoyages.org.
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Atlantic History and the Slave Trade to Spanish America
Borucki et al present new data on transatlantic slave arrivals and a comprehensive examination of the intra-American trans-imperial traffic, thereby offering a fresh assessment of the slave trade to the Spanish Americas. Their analysis of this material leads to a new appreciation of not only the African presence in the Spanish colonies, but also--given the links between slavery and economic power before abolition--the status of the whole Spanish imperial project. Overall, they find, more enslaved Africans permanently entered the Spanish colonies than the whole British Caribbean, making the Spanish Americas the most important political entity in the Americas after Brazil to receive slaves.
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Visualizing the Middle Passage
Crowding on slave ships was much more severe than historians have recognized, worsening in the nineteenth century during the illegal phase of the traffic. An analysis of numerous illustrations of slave vessels created by then-contemporary artists, in conjunction with new data, demonstrates that the 1789 diagram of the British slave ship Brooks—the most iconic of these illustrations—fails to capture the degree to which enslaved people were crowded on the Brooks, as well as on most other British slaving vessels of the eighteenth century. Five other images of slave ships sailing under different national colors in different eras further reveal the realities of ship crowding in different periods. The most accurate representation of ship-board conditions in the eighteenth-century slave trade is in the paintings of the French slave ship Marie-Séraphique.
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The U.S. Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644–1867: An Assessment
[...] whatever definition is employed, it is rather startling to consider that half a century after the first awakening of scholarly interest in slavery and the slave trade in the United States, which has generated many thousands of monographs and articles, there is still no book on the U.S. transatlantic slave trade, however defined.2 It scarcely seems possible that what is offered here is, in fact, not so much a reassessment as a first assessment. [...] part of the large jump in arrivals in the demographic series late in the period may stem from differences in how the first and second U.S. censuses were conducted (1790 and 1800) relative to their colonial predecessors, rather than the reality of immigration.3 The second kind of assessment of the number of captives arriving in North America stems from shipping data.\\n But for the period after 1835, when so many flags of convenience were in use (or no flags at all), we have taken the drastic step of overriding the historical data and making the assumption that all voyages bringing slaves into Cuba were Spanish- or Cuban-owned and all voyages going to Brazil were Portugueseor Brazilian-owned.
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Human capital and institutions
Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel -- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel -- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer -- The evolution of schooling in the Americas, 1800-1925 / Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Why the United States led in education : lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800-1950 : some new data / Michael Edelstein -- Young geniuses and old masters : the life cycles of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns / David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen -- An elite minority : Jews among the richest 400 Americans / Peter Temin -- Suffrage and the terms of labor / Robert J. Steinfeld -- Prodigals and projectors : an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 / Hugh Rockoff
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