Yazar: David Eltis

This watershed study is the first to consider in concrete terms the consequences of Britain’s abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Why did Britain pull out of the slave trade just when it was becom …

Since 1999, intensive research efforts have vastly increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A huge database of slave trade voyages from Columbus’s era t …

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Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time – from ancient times to the present – and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas a …

Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time – from ancient times to the present – and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas a …

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 …

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 …

Volume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlan …

Volume 3 of The Cambridge World History of Slavery is a collection of essays exploring the various manifestations of coerced labor in Africa, Asia and the Americas between the opening up of the Atlan …

The essays in this book demonstrate the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies’ previously …

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to …

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