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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Evsey D. Domar (1970), ‘The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis’
- 2 Stanley L. Engerman (1973), ‘Some Considerations Relating to Property Rights in Man’
- 3 Paul E. Lovejoy (1982), ‘The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade: A Synthesis’
- 4 Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo (1993), ‘The Inter-Atlantic Paradigm: The Failure of Spanish Medieval Colonization of the Canary and Caribbean Islands’
- 5 Ivor Wilks (1982), ‘Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries: The Matter of Bitu’
- 6 Janet J. Ewald (1992), ‘Slavery in Africa and the Slave Trades from Africa’
- 7 J.D. Fage (1980), ‘Slaves and Society in Western Africa, c. 1445-c. 1700’
- 8 Henry F. Dobyns (1966), ‘Estimating Aboriginal American Population: An Appraisal of Techniques with a New Hemispheric Estimate’
- 9 John D. Daniels (1992), ‘The Indian Population of North America in 1492’
- 10 Frank Moya Pons (1984), ‘The Tanios of Hispaniola: The Island’s First Inhabitants’
- 11 Stuart B. Schwartz (1978), ‘Indian Labor and New World Plantations: European Demands and Indian Responses in Northeastern Brazil’
- 12 Robert Charles Padden (1957), ‘Cultural Change and Military Resistance in Araucanian Chile, 1550–1730’
- 13 John M. Monteiro (1988), ‘From Indian to Slave: Forced Native Labour and Colonial Society in Sao Paulo during the Seventeenth Century’
- 14 A.J.R. Russell-Wood (1978), ‘Iberian Expansion and the Issue of Black Slavery: Changing Portuguese Attitudes, 1440–1770’
- 15 John W. Blake (1940), ‘English Trade with the Portuguese Empire in West Africa 1581–1629’
- 16 P.E.H. Hair (1970), ‘Protestants as Pirates, Slavers, and Proto-Missionaries: Sierra Leone 1568 and 1582’
- 17 Colin A. Palmer (1995), ‘From Africa to the Americas: Ethnicity in the Early Black Communities of the Americas’
- Name Index