Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet – particularly the rise of the sugar economy. 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, 2
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 569
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Dedication
Introduction
1 African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade
2 African Societies and the Atlantic Slave Trade
3 "Here is No Resisting the Country": The Realities of Power in Afro-European Relations on the West African "Slave Coast"
4 Hunting for Rents: The Economics of Slaving in Pre-Colonial Africa
5 Encomienda, African Slavery, and Agriculture in Seventeenth-Century Caracas
6 The French Slave Trade: An Overview
7 The Economic Origins of Black Slavery in the British West Indies, 1640–1680: A Tentative Analysis of the Barbados Model
8 The Economics of Transition to the Black Labor System in Barbados, 1630–1680
9 Trade, Plunder, and Economic Development in Early English Jamaica, 1655–89
10 Who Bought Slaves in Early America? Purchasers of Slaves from the Royal African Company in Jamaica, 1674–1708
11 "To Procure Negroes": The English Slave Trade to Barbados, 1627–60
12 "The Countrie Continues Sicklie": White Mortality in Jamaica, 1655–1780
13 The Passion to Exist: Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1650–1832
14 The Influence of Disease on Race, Logistics and Colonization in the Antilles
15 The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies, 1650–1834
16 The First American Boom: Virginia 1618 to 1630
17 From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System
18 The Tobacco Industry in the Chesapeake Colonies, 1617–1730: An Interpretation
19 The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
20 The English Sugar Islands and the Founding of South Carolina
21 Black and Mulatto Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Collective Behavior
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