Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System - Softcover

Solow, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521457378 ISBN 13: 9780521457378

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The inclusion of the New World in the international economy, among the most important events in modern history, was based on slavery. Europeans brought at least eight million black men, women and children out of Africa to the Western Hemisphere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, and slavery transformed the Atlantic into a complex trading area. This trade united North and South America, Europe, and Africa through the movement of peoples, goods and services, credit and capital. The essays in this book place slavery in the mainstream of modern history. They 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.

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The essays in this book place slavery in the mainstream of modern history. They describe the transfer of slavery form 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521457378
• ISBN 13: 9780521457378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366