Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume looks at the eighteenth century, which saw the high point of the Atlantic slave trade. It contains essays which examine the commercial and financial structure of the British slave trade; the contribution of other European countries to the trade; and the effects of the trade on West and West Central Africa. 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, 3
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 558
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Dedication
Introduction
1 Slave Exports from West and West-Central Africa, 1700–1810: New Estimates of Volume and Distribution
2 Prices of Slaves in West and West-Central Africa: Toward an Annual Series, 1698–1807
3 King Agaja of Dahomey, the Slave Trade, and the Question of West African Plantations: The Embassy of Bulfinch Lambe and Adomo Tomo to England, 1726–32
4 Whitehaven and the Eighteenth-Century British Slave Trade
5 The Commercial and Financial Organization of the British Slave Trade, 1750–1807
6 Market Structure and the Profits of the British African Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century
7 Profitability of the British Trade in Slaves Once Again
8 Productivity in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
9 Evidence on English/African Terms of Trade in the Eighteenth Century
10 Characteristics of British Slaving Vessels, 1698–1775
11 The World an Absentee Planter and His Slaves Made: Sir William Stapleton and His Nevis Sugar Estate, 1722–1740
12 "Prodigious Riches": The Wealth of Jamaica Before the American Revolution
13 The Condition of the Slaves in the Settlement and Economic Development of the British Windward Islands, 1763–1775
14 Measuring the French Slave Trade, 1713–1792/3
15 The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century: A Quantitative Study
16 Profitability of Slave and Long-Distance Trading in Context: The Case of Eighteenth-Century France
17 A Reassessment of the Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade
18 The History of the Danish Negro Slave Trade, 1733–1807
19 Worlds Apart: Africans' Encounters and Africa's Encounters with the Atlantic in Angola, Before 1800
20 The Cacao Economy of the Eighteenth-Century Province of Caracas and the Spanish Cacao Market
21 Social Protest and Labour Bargaining: The Changing Nature of Slaves' Responses to Plantation Life in Eighteenth-Century Barbados
22 Le Cat and the Physiology of Negroes
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