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Mortality in the Atlantic Slave Trade: Statistical Evidence on Causality

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1981
A critique of an article by Joseph C. Miller concerning the mortality of slaves during the Atlantic crossing is presented. A reply by Miller is also included (pp. 331-6). (ANNOTATION)
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Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

, 2016
The Voyages website (http://www.slavevoyages.org) provides the most comprehensive source of data currently available on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
D. Eltis
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An Atlantic Free Trade Area?

1971
Throughout this book the proposal to join the Common Market has been subject to criticism from a wide variety of points of view. The time has now arrived to explore some of the alternative solutions.
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Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade

2015
There was nothing quite like the Atlantic slave trade in the long and varied history of the trafficking in enslaved men, women, and children. Although the trans-Saharan slave trade conveyed captives to North Africa and the Middle East over a longer span of time, no previous system approximated the more than 12.5 million embarked from Africa for the ...
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The Atlantic Coast of German Trade: German Rural Industry and Trade in the Atlantic, 1680–1840

Itinerario, 2002
Throughout the last decade a number of rather detailed studies on eighteenth-century Atlantic merchants and merchant colonies in Atlantic port cities has been published. The works ofJacob Price, David Hancock, Jonathan Israel, Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, and Manuel Bustos Rodríguez demonstrate the growing historical interest in maritime trade and ...
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The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World

, 2016
For many years, Dutch explorations and exploitations in Southeast Asia have caught the imagination of scholars. The Dutch East India Company (VOC), armed with a carte blanche to wage war and conduct diplomacy on behalf of the Dutch Estates General, left ...
W. Klooster
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Atlantic trade and British ports

2001
As Capitalism and Slavery suggested, and as modern research has confirmed, Atlantic trade was crucial for the development of Britain's west coast outports and had a significant impact on the metropolis (E. Williams, 1944: 60–4, 73–5). Virtually all ports around Britain participated in transatlantic commerce to some degree.
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Sugar and the slave trade in the development of Atlantic maritime trade

2017
ABSTRACT. This article aims to describe and evaluate the role of the sugar complexes in the development of the Atlantic zone. The author insists on the practically dominant bilateral Africa- America liaison whereas European historiography underlines the importance of the triangular oceanic system.
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Atlantic Trade and American Identities

, 2020
C. Schnurmann
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Africa and the Caribbean in the Atlantic Slave Trade

The American Historical Review, 1972
CHATTEL SLAVERY AND THE NEAR-SLAVERY of indentured servitude had their economic origin in the abundance of land in proportion to population. Free white settlers in the colonies were prone to disperse over the land and practice a semisubsistence economy that combined such activities as hunting, trapping, and primitive agriculture. On the other hand, the
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