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xvi, 448 pages ; 24 cm |
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Studies in social discontinuity |
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Studies in social discontinuity.
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Papers presented at a conference held at Colby College, Aug. 20-22, 1975, under the sponsorship of the History Advisory Committee on the Mathematical Social Science Board. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Henry A. Gemery and Jan S. Hogendorn -- The trans-Saharan slave trade : a tentative census / Ralph A. Austen -- Some aspects of the commercial organization of slaving at Luanda, Angola, 1760-1830 / Joseph C. Miller -- The slave trade in the Bight of Benin, 1640-1890 / Patrick Manning -- The economic costs of West African participation in the Atlantic slave trade : a preliminary sampling for the eighteenth century / Henry A. Gemery and Jan S. Hogendorn -- The delivery of slaves from the Central Sudan to the Bight of Benin in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Mahdi Admu -- Slavery in West Africa / Martin Klein and Paul E. Lovejoy -- Slave marketing in West Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn -- Mortality in the Dutch slave trade, 1675-1795 / Johannes Postma -- A note on mortality in the French slave trade in the eighteenth century / Herbert S. Klein and Stanley L. Engerman -- The direction and fluctuation of the transatlantic slave trade, 1821-1843 : a revision of the 1845 Parliamentary paper / D. Eltis -- West African consumption patterns and their influence on the eighteenth-century English slave trade / David Richardson -- The triangular trade revisited / Walter E. Minchinton -- The Dutch participation in the Atlantic slave trade, 1596-1650 / Ernst van den Boogaart and Pieter C. Emmer -- The adoption of slave labor in British America / Richard N. Bean and Robert P. Thomas -- The economic considerations behind the Danish abolition of the Negro slave trade / Svend E. Green-Pederson -- British repression of the illegal French slave trade : some considerations / Serge Daget. |
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Slave trade -- History -- Congresses.
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Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings. (OCoLC)fst01423772
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Gemery, Henry A.
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Hogendorn, Jan S.
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Mathematical Social Science Board. History Advisory Committee.
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| ISBN |
0122798503 |
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9780122798504 |
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