History

• Clearly written chapter introductions and conclusions make this complex subject more comprehensible.
• Maps provide a clear understanding of places and events and their proximity.
• Period images provide context and bring the material to life.
• Charts and graphs visually demonstrate historical trends in slave trade.

Contents

Introduction

The Slave Trade and the Western World

Ways of Studying the Slave Trade

Overview of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Connections

The Old World Background to New World Slavery

The Maritime Revolution and European Trade with Africa

Chapter 1: Why did Europeans Buy African Slaves?

Origins: Economics or Racism

Early Labor Demand in the New World

Northern Europeans and the Expansion of the Slave Trade

The 18^th Century Peak of the Slave Trade

Slavery and Racism

Chapter 2:  Why Did Africans Sell Slaves?

Common Myths

General Interpretations

The Slave Trade, Wealth, and Power in Africa

The First Two Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Slave Exports from Africa

Expansion of the Trade

Effects of the Slave Trade on Africa

Chapter 3: How Did Enslaved People Cope?

The Henrietta Marie

Passages on Land

Passages at Sea

African Cultures in the New World

Chapter 4: How Did the Slave Trade End?

Profits and the Slave Trade

Ideology and Revolution

Antislavery in the United Kingdom

Revolution in St. Domingue

Final Slave Trade Abolition

What Explains British Antislavery?

Epilogue: Making Connections: Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade

The Slave Trade in Modern Memory

Africa

Great Britain

The Americas — The West Indies & Cuba

Brazil

Racism in the Americas

Slavery in the Contemporary World

The Big Lessons

Atlantic History  (U.S. History)
History of African-Americans  (U.S. History)
World History: Volume 1 (to 1500)  [CONNECTIONS SERIES]   (Western and World History)
History of Slavery  [CONNECTIONS SERIES]   (Western and World History)
Western Civilization: Volume 2 (after 1650)  [CONNECTIONS SERIES]   (Western and World History)
Western Civilization: Volume 1 (until 1715)  [CONNECTIONS SERIES]   (Western and World History)
World History: Volume 2 (after 1500)  [CONNECTIONS SERIES]   (Western and World History)

Lisa A. Lindsay holds a Ph.D. in African history from University of Michigan and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Before developing her scholarship on the slave trade, she published Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria, Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (co-edited with Stephen F. Miescher), and scholarly articles on colonial Nigeria.  She has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Socities, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This book centers on one of the most tragic, horrifying, and important pieces of the history of the Western world: the transatlantic slave trade.  Unlike any other system of commerce in world history, the primary commodities exchanged in the slave trade were people, and this fact has implications not only for how the trade was initiated, conducted, conceptualized, and concluded, but also for how we make sense of it in the present.  For on one hand, the Atlantic slave trade was indeed trade, and as such it bears comparison with and was related to the expansion of a variety of global commercial networks.  On the other hand, unlike other commodities driving cross-cultural exchange in world history, slaves were human, with all this implies about their vulnerability to pain and discomfort, their capacity to resist, their real or potential relationships with sellers and buyers, and--most fundamentally to those sellers and buyers--their labor power.  Understanding the Atlantic slave trade thus requires studying economic and political history, dealing largely with those who bought and sold slaves, as well as the social and cultural history of slavers, the enslaved, and the societies they lived in and built. 

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