Name/Title
Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic SystemEntry/Object ID
2010.002.098Description
The essays in this book place slavery in the mainstream of modern history and describe the transfer of slavery from the Old World, its role in forging the interdependence of the economies bordering the Atlantic, its effect on the empires of Portugal, the Netherlands, France, and Great Britain, and its impact on Africa.
Contents: Slavery and colonization / Barbara L. Solow -- The Old World background of slavery in the Americas / William D. Phillips, Jr. -- Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492-1713 / Franklin W. Knight -- The Dutch and the making of the second Atlantic system / P.C. Emmer -- Precolonial western Africa and the Atlantic economy / David Eltis -- A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system: The Portuguese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century / Joseph C. Miller -- The apprenticeship of colonization / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens / P.K. O'Brien and S.L. Engerman -- The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution / Patrick Villiers -- Slavery, trade, and economic growth in eighteenth-century New England / David Richardson -- Economic aspects of the growth of slavery in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / David W. Galenson -- Credit in the slave trade and plantation economies / Jacob M. Price.
viii, 355 p. : map ; 24 cm. (softcover)Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2010.002.Source or Donor
New Library Catalog Records (2010)Acquisition Method
Found in CollectionLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Slave trade--Africa--Congresses, Slave trade--Europe--Congresses, Slave trade--America--CongressesBook Details
Author
Solow, Barbara L. (Barbara Lewis)Publisher
Cambridge University PressDate Published
1991Call No.
HT855 .S58 1991ISBN
0521400902LCCN
90044953Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Category
PermanentGeneral Notes
Note
Notes: Edited by Barbara L. Solow.
Includes bibliographical references and index.Created By
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April 5, 2023