附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-425) and index.
The early years of the slave trade -- The Portuguese pioneers -- Spain and the slave trade -- The Dutch and the Danes -- France: the early years -- France in the eighteenth century -- England gains ascendancy -- Bristol -- Liverpool -- London and the eighteenth-century slave trade -- The economics of the slave trade -- The middle passage -- Americans enter the slave trade -- The American dimensions and the Massachusetts contribution -- Rhode Island -- The American slave market -- A summing up.
摘要:"James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade." "This revised edition of Rawley's classic, produced with the assistance of Stephen D. Behrendt, includes emended text to reflect the major changes in historiography, current slave trade data tables and accompanying text; updated notes; and the addition of a select bibliography."--Jacket
