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Epidemiology and the slave trade.
Historians have begun to show a new interest in the slave trade. Recent developments in historical demographv, economic history, and the history of Africa have solved some of the old problems and posed new ones. The mere passage of time makes it possible
P. Curtin
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SIDE LIGHTS ON THE SLAVE TRADE [PDF]
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Guy E. Cooper
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Climate and the slave trade [PDF]
African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering slave supply costs. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which predicts adverse outcomes today.
James Fenske, N. Kala
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Anti-Slave-Trade Law, ‘Liberated Africans’ and the State in the South Atlantic World, c.1839–1852*
From 1807 onwards, bilateral slave-trade treaties stipulated how naval squadrons would rescue slaves from slave ships, and how states should arrange the settlement and apprenticeship of these slaves, to transform them into ‘liberated Africans’. Comparing
Ted Cohen, A M Sickles
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Genetic Consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Americas. [PDF]
Micheletti SJ+9 more
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Legacy Establishing A Case For International Reparations
This Article examines the legal principle of restitution (reparations) as applied to crimes against humanity that were committed as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, as enumerated in international conventions and statutes.
Patricia M. Muhammad
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The Impact of the Slave Trade on Literacy in Africa: Evidence from the Colonial Era [PDF]
Recent studies have highlighted the importance of Africa's history of slave exporting to its current economic development. In this paper I show that differences in investment in education may be one of the channels through which that history has affected
Nonso Obikili
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Since its conception in 2016, the Exploring Slave Trade in Asia (ESTA) project has been working towards solidifying research on the slave trade in the Indian Ocean region and Maritime Asia world by means of a collaborative database. This article briefly
Pascal Konings+5 more
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This article examines the continuity and changes of the Timorese slave trade network from the traditional era to the late nineteenth-century Dutch colonial state. Archival records, newspapers, and other literature were used extensively to reconstruct the
Fanada Sholihah+2 more
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Anthropological Genetics Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST), around twelve million Africans were enslaved and forcibly moved from Africa to the Americas and Europe, durably influencing the genetic and cultural landscape of a large part of humanity since the 15th ...
Cesar A. Fortes-Lima, P. Verdu
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