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It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world...
The transatlantic slave trade was the result of European colonialism in the Americas. When colonies Brazil and the Caribbean started using plantation system for sugar production, there was an explosion in demand for labor.
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline.
The transatlantic slave trade : a history by Rawley, James A. Publication date 1981 Topics Slave trade Publisher New York : Norton Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled ... Pdf_module_version 0.0.25 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0803205120 urn:oclc:60712954 urn:isbn:0803239610 urn:lccn:2004028349 ...
The Transatlantic slave trade radically impaired Africa's potential to develop economically and maintain its social and political stability.
The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM (Cambridge, i999) (hereafter cited as Eltis et al., eds., Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database). 2 Before 1519, all African slaves carried into the Atlantic disembarked at Old World ports, mainly Europe and the offshore Atlantic islands. From 1493, the year of Columbus's second voy-
This module focuses on the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the system which forced the enslavement of Africans who were transported to the western world. Enslaved Africans faced some of the most brutal treatment in human history, enduring a journey across the Atlantic Ocean that lasted anywhere
Introduction 1. PARTI. Nations Transporting Slaves from Africa, 1501-1867. 21. PART II. Ports Outfitting Voyages in the Transatlantic Slave Trade 37. PART III. The African Coastal Origins of Slaves and the Links between. Africa and the Atlantic World 87. PART IV. The Experience of the Middle Passage 159. PART V.
Patrick Manning. Journal of World-Systems Research. This study explores data on the Atlantic slave trade through a revised framework, focusing not simply on voyages of individual slave ships but on aggregating them by route, linking an African region of departure with an American region of arrival.