Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume covers the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, the selection of essays here look at the reasons for the causes of slavery and serfdom; slavery in Africa; the development of the slave trade; the demographic situation in Latin America; and European attitudes to slavery as an institution. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes.
Author(s): Jeremy Black
Series: The Atlantic Slave Trade, 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 424
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Half Title
Series Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Dedication
Introduction
1 The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis
2 Some Considerations Relating to Property Rights in Man
3 The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis
4 The Inter-Atlantic Paradigm: The Failure of Spanish Medieval Colonization of the Canary and Caribbean Islands
5 Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: The Matter of Bitu
6 Slavery in Africa and the Slave Trades from Africa
7 Slaves and Society in Western Africa, c. 1445–c. 1700
8 Estimating Aboriginal American Population: An Appraisal of Techniques with a New Hemispheric Estimate
9 The Indian Population of North America in 1492
10 The Tanios of Hispaniola: The Island's First Inhabitants
11 Indian Labor and New World Plantations: European Demands and Indian Responses in Northeastern Brazil
12 Cultural Change and Military Resistance in Araucanian Chile, 1550–1730
13 From Indian to Slave: Forced Native Labour and Colonial Society in São Paulo During the Seventeenth Century
14 Iberian Expansion and the Issue of Black Slavery: Changing Portuguese Attitudes, 1440–1770
15 English Trade with the Portuguese Empire in West Africa 1581–1629
16 Protestants as Pirates, Slavers, and Proto-Missionaries: Sierra Leone 1568 and 1582
17 From Africa to the Americas: Ethnicity in the Early Black Communities of the Americas
Name Index