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BL
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Record Number
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582206
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Doc. No
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b411425
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Main Entry
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Miller, Joseph Calder
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Title & Author
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Way of death : : merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830 /\ Joseph C. Miller
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Page. NO
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xxx, 770 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0299115607
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: 9780299115609
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: 9780299115647
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: 029911564X
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Notes
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Includes index
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Bibliography: p. 717-745
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Contents
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The people of Western Central Africa -- The value of material goods and people in African political economies: an interpretation --Foreign imports and their uses in the political economy of Western Central Africa -- The production of people: political consolidation and the release of dependents for export -- The demography of slaving -- Bridging the gap: the structure of the African commercial and transport sector -- A history of competition, comparative advantage, and credit: the African commercial and transport sector in the eighteenth century -- Casualties of merchant capital: the Luso-Africans in Angola -- The white man's grave: expatriate merchants in Luanda -- Floating tombs: the maritime trade of the Brazilians
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Voyage of no return: the experience of enslavement: flight disease, and death -- Trading on the fringes: the rise of Brazilian interests in the Southern Atlantic slave trade to the 1770s -- Toward the center: Brazilian investment in the Southern Atlantic trade, ca. 1780-1810 -- Back to trading on the fringes: liberalism, abolition, and the British in Brazil in the nineteenth century -- The slave duty contracts in the Southern Atlantic, before 1760 -- "Freedom of trade" in the Pombal Era, 1755-1772 -- The dry well, 1772-1810 -- Lisbon's lost colony, 1810-1830 -- The economics of mortality
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Appendix A. Comparative estimates of basic labor rations --Appendix B. Estimate of mortality among slaves awaiting sale in the new world -- Appendix C. Principal authors of documentation cited
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Subject
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Slave trade-- Portugal-- History
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Slave trade-- Angola-- History
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Slave trade-- Brazil-- History
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Subject
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Slave traders-- Angola-- History
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Subject
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Kolonialpolitik-- Portugal
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Sklaverei-- Angola-- Brasilien
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Subject
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Portugal, Commercial policy, History
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Subject
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Brazil, Commerce, History
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Dewey Classification
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382/.44/09469
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LC Classification
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HT1221.M55 1988
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