The Atlantic Slave Trade

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The Atlantic Slave Trade : a Census.

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The Atlantic slave trade : effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: gainers and losers in the Atlantic slave trade /…”
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The economic consequences of the Atlantic slave trade / by Solow, Barbara L. (Barbara Lewis)

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African voices of the Atlantic slave trade : beyond the silence and the shame / by Bailey, Anne C. (Anne Caroline)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from the Middle Passage to middle quarters, Jamaica : the transformation of a personal journey -- The incident at Atorkor : a break with the past -- African agency in the Atlantic slave trade -- African resistance: the slave who whipt her mistress and ganed her fredom and other oral and written tales -- European and American agency in the Atlantic slave trade -- The social and political impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the old Slave Coast -- Subversion of the sacred : the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on Anlo Ewe religious organizations -- Reparations as rememory and redress.…”
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Culpability of the trans-Atlantic slave trade : a multidisciplinary primer /

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Legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, December 18, 2007.

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Crossings : Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic slave trade / by Walvin, James

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West Africa during the Atlantic slave trade : archaeological perspectives /

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Shackles of memory : the Atlantic slave trade /

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Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752 / by Pettigrew, William A. (William Andrew), 1978-

“…Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752…”
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Freedom's debt : the Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752 / by Pettigrew, William A. (William Andrew), 1978-

“…Royal African Company and the politics of the Atlantic slave trade, 1672-1752…”
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Atlantic Slave Trade Routes, 1500-1619 -- North America, United States, Canada, Africa, South America, Europe, Brazil, Cuba, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire Map /

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Extending the frontiers : essays on the new transatlantic slave trade database

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Networks and trans-cultural exchange : slave trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The South Atlantic slave trade in historical perspective / David Richardson and Filipa Ribeiro da Silva -- Brazil's colonial economy and the Atlantic slave trade : supply and demand / Gustavo Acioli Lopes -- Private businessmen in the Angolan trade,1590s to 1780s : insurance, commerce and agency / Filipa Ribeiro da Silva -- Angola and the seventeenth-century South Atlantic slave trade / Arlinda Manuel Caldeira -- Trade networks in benguela, 1700-1850 / Mariana P. …”
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Slavery and African ethnicities in the Americas : restoring the links by Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo

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The Routledge history of slavery

Table of Contents: “…Lovejoy -- Slavery in the Indian Ocean world / Gwyn Campbell -- The origins of slavery in the Americas, 1500-1700 / Betty Wood -- The Atlantic slave trade / Trevor Burnard -- Work and the slave economy / Lorena Walsh -- The demography of slavery / Richard Follett -- Gender and family life / Jennifer L. …”
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Slavery and Reform in West Africa : Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Senegal and the Gold Coast. by Getz, Trevor R.

Table of Contents: “…Maps; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade; 2 The Crisis of Abolition, Legitimate Trade, and the Adaptation of Slavery; 3 Rules and Reality; 4 The Grand Experiment; 5 Pragmatic Policies in Periods of Expansion; 6 Slaves and Masters in the Postproclamation Gold Coast; 7 Slaves and Masters in French-Administered Senegal; 8 Toward the Eradication of the Overland Slave Trade?…”
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Black Marxism : the making of the Black radical tradition by Robinson, Cedric J.

Table of Contents: “…Radical capitalism: the nonobjective character of capitalist development -- The English working class as the mirror of production -- Socialist theory and nationalism -- The process and consequences of Africa's transmutation -- The Atlantic slave trade and African labor -- The historical archaeology of the Black radical tradition -- The nature of the Black radical tradition -- The formation of an intelligentsia -- Historiography and the Black radical tradition -- C.L.R. …”
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Is the Holocaust unique? : perspectives on comparative genocide

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to the First Edition; Introduction to the Second Edition; Introduction to the Third Edition; 1 The Ethics of Uniqueness; 2 Religion and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust; 3 From the Holocaust: Some Legal and Moral Implications; 4 The Uniqueness of the Holocaust: The Historical Dimension; 5 Responses to the Porrajmos: The Romani Holocaust; 6 The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis; 7 The Armenian Genocide as Precursor and Prototype of Twentieth-Century Genocide.…”
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Slavery Interpreting American History. by Astor, Aaron

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Slavery Historiography: Overview of Contemporaries and Historians -- Chapter Two: American Slavery and the Economy -- Chapter Three: American Slavery and Politics -- Chapter Four: American Slavery and Gender -- Chapter Five: American Slavery and Families -- Chapter Six: American Slavery and Resistance -- Chapter Seven: American Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade -- Chapter Eight: American Slavery and Free African Americans -- Chapter Nine: American Slavery and Emancipation -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index…”
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London, metropolis of the slave trade by Rawley, James A.

Table of Contents: “…The transatlantic slave trade: a survey -- The port of London and the eighteenth-century slave trade: historians, sources, and a reappraisal -- Humphry Morice: foremost London slave merchant of his time -- Richard Harris, slave trader spokesman -- Henry Laurens and the Atlantic slave trade -- Further light on Archibald Dalzel -- John Newton: amazing grace -- London's defense of the slave trade, 1787-1807 -- Captain Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for violating the slave trade laws -- A summing up.…”
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Mother is gold, father is glass : gender and colonialism in a Yoruba town by Semley, Lorelle D., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…"Mother is gold, father is glass": power and vulnerability in Atlantic Africa -- Founding fathers and metaphorical mothers: history, myth, and the making of a kingdom -- How kings lost their mothers: politics of the Atlantic slave trade -- Giving away Kétu's secret: wives on the eve of war -- "Where women really matter": the "queens" of Kétu and the challenge to French imperialism -- "Without family-- there is no true colonization": perspectives on marriage -- "The opening of the eyes": the politics of manhood on the eve of independence -- Mothers and fathers of an Atlantic world -- Epilogue. …”
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Masquerading Politics : Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town. by Willis, John Thabiti

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- MASQUERADING POLITICS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Early History of Otta and the Origins of Egungun and Gelede -- 2 "Children" and "Wives" in the Politics of the Oyo Empire during the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade -- 3 The Emergence of New Warriors, Wards, and Masquerades: The Otta Kingdom during the Era of Oyo Imperial Collapse -- 4 "A Thing to Govern the Town": Gendered Masquerades and the Politics of the Chiefs and the Monarchy in the Rebuilding of a Town, 1848-1859 -- 5 Wives, Warriors, and Masks: Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in Otta, 1871-1928 -- Conclusion: Egungun and Gelede in Otta Today -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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From independence to the U.S. Constitution : reconsidering the critical period of American history

Table of Contents: “…Norwood -- America's Court: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the Critical Period / Douglas Bradburn -- Abolitionists, Congress, and the Atlantic Slave Trade: Before and after Ratification / Nicholas P. …”
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic

Table of Contents: “…Morgan -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.…”
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Tropical Babylons : sugar and the making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

Table of Contents: “…Schwartz -- The Atlantic slave trade to 1650 / Herbert Klein -- The expansion of the sugar market in Western Europe / Eddy Stols -- The sugar industry in the seventeenth century : a new perspective on the Barbadian "sugar revolution" / John J. …”
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To Make Our World Anew, 1 : a History of African Americans to 1880. by Kelley, Robin D. G.

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Laboring Women : Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. by Morgan, Jennifer L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Sources; Introduction; Chapter 1: ''Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder'': Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology; Chapter 2: ''The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe'': The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles; Chapter 3 ''The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers'': Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies; Chapter 4 ''Hannah and Hir Children'': Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women.…”
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Laboring Women : Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery. by Morgan, Jennifer L.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Sources; Introduction; Chapter 1: ''Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder'': Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology; Chapter 2: ''The Number of Women Doeth Much Disparayes the Whole Cargoe'': The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and West African Gender Roles; Chapter 3 ''The Breedings Shall Goe with Their Mothers'': Gender and Evolving Practices of Slaveownership in the English American Colonies; Chapter 4 ''Hannah and Hir Children'': Reproduction and Creolization Among Enslaved Women.…”
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Africans in America. Part 3, Brotherly love. Interview with Margaret Washington, associate professor of history, Cornell University. 3 of 4

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Memórias do Esquecimento

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Then we'll sing a new song : African influences on America's religious landscape by Clark, Mary Ann, 1949-

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The art of conversion : Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo by Fromont, Cecile

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Africans in America. Part 4, Judgment day. Interview with Eric Foner, professor of history, Columbia University

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Shrines of the slave trade : Diola religion and society in precolonial Senegambia by Baum, Robert M.

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An African slaving port and the Atlantic world : Benguela and its Hinterland by Candido, Mariana P. (Mariana Pinho), 1975-

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A Civilised Savagery : Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926. by Grant, Kevin

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Re-membering the Black Atlantic : on the poetics and politics of literary memory by Eckstein, Lars

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From Africa to Jamaica : the making of an Atlantic slave society, 1775-1807 by Diptee, Audra

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