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The African Slave Trade and Modern Household Finance

Economic Journal, 2019
We evaluate the impact of the African slave trade between 1400 and 1900 on modern household finance. Exploiting cross-country and cross-ethnic group differences in the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa, we find that ...
Ross Levine, Chen Lin, Wensi Xie
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American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

Southern Spaces, 2009
Dr. David Brion Davis discusses American and British Slave Trade Abolition as the keynote speaker at an Emory University conference, "Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database and the Bicentennial of the End of the Slave Trade, 1808-2008," on ...
David Brion Davis
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Les mots esclave, nègre, Noir, et les jugements de valeur sur la traite négrière dans la littérature abolitionniste française de 1770 à 1845

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2009
The numerous anti-slave trade writings published between 1780 and 1845 suggest trying and finding out which of the three words “slave”, “negro” and “Black” was preferred, and what views were expressed on the slave trade system.
Serge Daget
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Slave flights and runaway communities in Angola (17th-19th centuries)

Anos 90, 2014
This article explores slave resistance in Angola by focusing on slave flights and the formation of runaway communities during the era of the transatlantic slave trade from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Roquinaldo Ferreira
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A Study in Evil: The Slave Trade in Africa

Religions, 2023
In this special issue on justice, ethics, and philosophy of religion, let us consider a historical case study. The trade of slaves across the Atlantic lasted 400 years and led to the forcible removal of about 12.5 million people from Africa, south of the
Abdulai Iddrisu
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“Why may not our country be enriched by that lucrative traffic?”: The slave trade and the failed politics of federal proscription in the early American Republic (1787-1808)

XVII-XVIII, 2020
This article proposes to explore the commercial dimensions of the slave trade suppression in the United States during the early national period. It draws attention to recent scholarship on the Atlantic slave trade and the politics of slavery in the early
Andy Cabot
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Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2019
Crowding on slave ships was much more severe than historians have recognized, worsening in the nineteenth century during the illegal phase of the traffic.
Nicholas Radburn, D. Eltis
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The Slave Trade and Conflict in Africa, 1400-2000

Social Science Research Network, 2019
Can the slave trade explain Africa's propensity for conflict? Using variation in slave exports driven by the interaction between foreign demand shocks and heterogeneity in trade costs, we show that the slave trade increased conflict propensities in pre ...
Levi Boxell, John T. Dalton, Tin Cheuk Leung   +2 more
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“In this Trade, No Places are Held:” Involvement of Portuguese slave traders in the slave trade between Africa and Brazil (1818-1828) [PDF]

História, 2017
Between 1818 and 1828, the Portuguese Board of Trade (known locally as the Junta do Comércio) gave ships departing from Lisbon permission to traffic African slaves to Brazil.
Jaime Rodrigues
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A Caribbean Affair: The Liberalisation of the Slave Trade in the Spanish Caribbean, 1784-1791

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2019
The liberalisation of the slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean ended with a series of political measures which aimed to revitalise the practice of slavery in the region. After granting a series of monopoly contracts (asientos) to merchant houses based in
José Luis Belmonte Postigo
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