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BL
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960027
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b714397
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Eltis, David,1940-
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The rise of African slavery in the Americas /\ David Eltis.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 2000.
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xvii, 353 pages :: maps ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0521652316
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: 052165548X
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: 9780521652315
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: 9780521655484
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-338) and index.
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| Contents
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Slavery and freedom in the early modern world -- The English, the Dutch, and transoceanic migration -- Europeans and African slavery in the Americas -- Gender and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world -- Productivity in the slave trade -- Africa and Europe in the early modern era -- The African impact on the transatlantic slave trade -- The English plantation Americas in comparative perspective -- Ethnicity in the early modern Atlantic world -- Europe and the Atlantic slave systems -- On abolition -- The age and sex of Africans in the transatlantic slave trade, 1663-1713 -- Slave-price appendix -- Merchandise imported to west Africa, 1662-1713 -- Valuations of produce exports from the Leeward Islands in 1700.
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| Abstract
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Why were the countries with the most developed institutions of individual freedom also the leaders in establishing the most exploitative system of slavery that the world has ever seen? To provide answers to this question, this book examines the development of the English Atlantic slave system between 1650 and 1800. The book outlines a major African role in the evolution of the Atlantic societies before the nineteenth century and argues that the transatlantic slave trade was a result of African strength rather than African weakness. It also addresses changing patterns of group identity to account for the racial basis of slavery in the early modern Atlantic world. Exploring the paradox of the concurrent development of slavery and freedom in the European domains, the author provides an interpretation of this difficult historical problem.
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Colonies-- America-- History.
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Slave trade-- America-- History.
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Slavery-- America-- History.
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Amerika.
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British colonies.
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Colonies-- America-- History.
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Colonies.
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Esclavage-- Amérique-- Histoire.
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Geschichte
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Historie.
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Schwarze
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Sklavenhandel
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Sklaverei
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Slave trade-- America-- History.
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Slave trade.
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Slavehandel.
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Slaveri.
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Slavery-- America-- History.
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Slavery.
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Tidlig nytid.
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Traite des esclaves-- Amérique-- Histoire.
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Slavenhandel.
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Slavernij.
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Great Britain, Colonies, America, History.
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America.
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Amerika
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Grande-Bretagne, Colonies, Amérique.
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Great Britain, Colonies, America, History.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.3/62/097
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| LC Classification
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HT1048.E47 2000
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15.50bcl
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15.50.bcl
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cci1icclacc
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coll1lacc
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NW 8295rvk
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