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Edmund Burke on slavery and the slave trade

Slavery & Abolition, 2019
This article reconstructs Edmund Burke’s thoughts on slavery from his Account of the European Settlements in America to his parliamentary speeches in the late 1700s.
Gregory M. Collins
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The Historical Slave Trade and Firm Access to Finance in Africa

, 2018
Access to finance helps explain the link between the historical African slave trade and current gross domestic product. We first present mistrust, weakened institutions, and ethnic fractionalization as plausible historical channels linking the slave ...
L. Pierce, Jason A. Snyder
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International Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade

Journal of Black Studies, 2018
This article compares German Holocaust reparations with reparations regarding slavery and the slave trade in the United States and beyond. I review many historical reparations measures (proposed and realized) making them comparable in 2016 U.S.
Thomas Craemer
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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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The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender Roles: Evidence from the Transatlantic Slave Trade

, 2016
Can demographic shocks affect the long-run evolution of female labor force participation and gender norms? This paper traces current variation in women’s participation in the labor force within Sub-Saharan Africa to the emergence of a female-biased sex ...
Edoardo Teso
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The Slave Trade

Social Science History, 1990
If the best-known aspects of African slavery remain the horrors of the middle passage and the travail of plantation life in the Americas, recent work has nonetheless provided some important reminders of the Old World ramifications of slavery (Miller 1988; Meillassoux 1986; Miers and Roberts 1988; Manning in press-a).
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The Suppression Of The African Slave Trade To The United States Of America 1638 1870

, 2016
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M. Faerber
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Slavery's Converging Ground: Charleston's Slave Trade as the Black Heart of the Lowcountry

, 2017
:The importance of slavery to colonial South Carolina's economy and society is well-known, but the central place of the slave trade in colonial Charleston's economy and society is less well understood.
Gregory E. O'malley
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Mozambique Island, Cape Town and the Organisation of the Slave Trade in the South-West Indian Ocean, c.1797–1807

, 2016
In the 1780s, French merchants developed a systemic trade in slaves to and around the Cape of Good Hope. But a decade later the trade passed into the hands of a cosmopolitan group of merchants at Mozambique.
P. Harries
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The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition

, 2016
In The Danish Slave Trade and Its Abolition, Erik Gobel offers an account of the well-documented Danish transatlantic slave trade and discusses, in detail, the 1792 decision to abolish it.
Erik Gøbel
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