Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714643904 ISBN 13: 9780714643908

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities.

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Synopsis:

The scale of the Atlantic slave trade has been a central issue in recent debates over transatlantic slavery from 1500 to 1867. Research has generated a vast amount of data on slaving voyages. Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. These are complemented by other papers which embody quantitative analysis by examining issues relating to the ethnicity of slaves. In addition to presenting new evidence on mortality trends in the slave trade and on African influences on the history of American slave societies, the volume raises important questions about how slaves reconstructed their identities outside of their homeland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0714643904
• ISBN 13: 9780714643908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Eltis David