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2. Atlantic Slave Trade
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Klein,Herbert S. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 234 p, The book examines the four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade, covering the West and East African experiences, as well as all the American colonies and republics that obtained slaves from Africa. It outlines both the common features of this trade and the local differences that developed. It discusses the slave trade's economics, politics, demographic impact, and cultural implications in Africa and America. Finally, it places the slave trade in the context of world trade and examines the role it played in the growing relationship between Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
3. The trans-Atlantic slave trade
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Eltis,David (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Published:
- Cambridge, UK :: Cambridge University Press,
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 89 p, The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade.