The Atlantic Slave Trade

Volume II Seventeenth Century

Jeremy Black

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032423616
• eBook ISBN: 9781000830989
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Series Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Walter Rodney (1966), ‘African Slavery and Other Forms of Social Oppression on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Context of the Atlantic Slave-Trade’
• 2 J.D. Fage (1989), ‘African Societies and the Atlantic Slave Trade’
• 3 Robin Law (1994), ‘“Here is No Resisting the Country”: The Realities of Power in Afro-European Relations on the West African “Slave Coast”’
• 4 E.W. Evans and David Richardson (1995), ‘Hunting for Rents: The Economics of Slaving in Pre-Colonial Africa’
• 5 Robert J. Ferry (1981), ‘Encomienda, African Slavery, and Agriculture in Seventeenth-Century Caracas’
• 6 David Geggus (2001), ‘The French Slave Trade: An Overview’
• 7 Hilary McD. Beckles (1982), ‘The Economic Origins of Black Slavery in the British West Indies, 1640-1680: A Tentative Analysis of the Barbados Model’
• 8 Hilary McD. Beckles and Andrew Downes (1987), ‘The Economics of Transition to the Black Labor System in Barbados, 1630-1680’
• 9 Nuala Zahedieh (1980), ‘Trade, Plunder, and Economic Development in Early English Jamaica, 1655-89’
• 10 Trevor Burnard (1996), ‘Who Bought Slaves in Early America? Purchasers of Slaves from the Royal African Company in Jamaica, 1674-1708’
• 11 Larry Gragg (1995), ‘“To Procure Negroes”: The English Slave Trade to Barbados, 1627-60’
• 12 Trevor Burnard (1999), ‘“The Countrie Continues Sicklie”: White Mortality in Jamaica, 1655-1780’
• 13 Michael Craton (1980), ‘The Passion to Exist: Slave Rebellions in the British West Indies, 1650-1832’
• 14 Francisco Guerra (1966), ‘The Influence of Disease on Race, Logistics and Colonization in the Antilles’
• 15 J.R. Ward (1978), ‘The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies, 1650-1834’
• 16 Edmund S. Morgan (1971), ‘The First American Boom: Virginia 1618 to 1630’
• 17 Russell Menard (1977), ‘From Servants to Slaves: The Transformation of the Chesapeake Labor System’
• 18 Russell R. Menard (1980), ‘The Tobacco Industry in the Chesapeake Colonies, 1617-1730: An Interpretation’
• 19 Alden T. Vaughan (1989), ‘The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia’
• 20 Richard S. Dunn (1971), ‘The English Sugar Islands and the Founding of South Carolina’
• 21 A.J.R. Russell-Wood (1974), ‘Black and Mulatto Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Collective Behavior’
• Name Index