Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 341 Seiten)
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Karten, Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780300271768
Content:
1. Connecting the Frontiers: British Merchants, African Middlemen, and the Making of Atlantic Slaving Ports -- 2. Cross-Cultural Trade and the Sale of Enslaved People in Atlantic Africa -- 3. Merchants and the Creation of the Floating Dungeon -- 4. Guinea Factors and the Forced Migrations of Enslaved People within the Americas -- 5. Many Middle Passages: Merchants, Planters, and the American Slave Trade -- EPILOGUE: Traders in Men during the Age of Revolutions, circa 1775-1808
Content:
During the eighteenth century, Britain's slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the eve of the American Revolution, grown into an Atlantic-wide system through which fifty thousand men, women, and children were enslaved every year. In this sweeping new history, Nicholas Radburn explains how thousands of slaving merchants in Africa, Britain, and the British Americas collectively created this cancerous system by devising highly efficient, but also violent, new business methods. African brokers developed commercial techniques that facilitated the enslavement and sale of millions of people. Britons invented shipping methods that quelled enslaved people's constant resistance on the Middle Passage. And American slave traders formulated brutal techniques through which shiploads of people could be quickly sold to a variety of colonial buyers. Truly Atlantic-wide in its vision, this study shows how the slave trade became one of the most important phenomena in world history and dragged millions of people into the trade's terrible vortex
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300257618
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Radburn, Nicholas Traders in men New Haven : Yale University Press, 2023 ISBN 9780300257618
Language:
English
Keywords:
Großbritannien
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USA
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Afrika
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Sklavenhandel
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Geschichte 1700-1800
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