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The Atlantic Slave Trade

Volume II Seventeenth Century
 
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Publisher: Routledge
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First 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.

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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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction.  1. African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade, Walter Rodney  2. African Societies and the Atlantic Slave Trade, J. D. Fage  3. ?Here is No Resisting the Country?: The Realities of Power in Afro-European Relations on the West African "Slave Coast", Robin Law  4. Hunting for Rents: The Economics of Slaving in Pre-colonial Africa, E. W. Evans and David Richardson  5. Encomienda, African Slavery, and Agriculture in Seventeenth-Century Caracas, Robert J. Ferry  6. The French Slave Trade: An Overview, David Geggus  7. The Economic Origins of Black Slavery in the British West Indies, 1640-1680: A Tentative Analysis of the Barbados Model, Hilary McD. Beckles  8. The Economics of Transition to the Black Labor System in Barbados, 1630-1680, Hilary McD. Beckles and Andrew Downes  9. Trade, Plunder and Economic Development in Early English Jamaica, 1655-89, Nuala Zahedieh  10. Who Bought Slaves in Early America? Purchasers of Slaves from the Royal African Company in Jamaica, 1674-1708, Trevor Burnard  11. ?To Procure Negroes?: The English Slave Trade to Barbados, 1627-60, Larry Gragg  12. ?The Countrie Continues Sicklie?: White Mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780, Trevor Burnard  13. The Passion to Exist: Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1650-1832, Michael Craton  14. The Influence of Disease on Race, Logistics and Colonization in the Antilles, Francisco Guerra  15. The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies, 1650-1834, J. R. Ward  16. The First American Boom: Virginia, 1618 to 1630, Edmund S. Morgan  17. From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System, Russell Menard  18. The Tobacco Industry in the Chesapeake Colonies, 1617-1730: An Interpretation, Russell Menard  19. The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, Alden T. Vaughan  20. The English Sugar Islands and the Founding of South Carolina, Richard S. Dunn  21. Black and Mulatto Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Collective Behavior, A. J. R. Russell-Wood.  Name Index.