The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade -- PART I. THE SOCIAL COST IN AFRICA OF FORCED MIGRATION -- 2. The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan -- 3. Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904 -- 4. The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade -- 5. The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System -- PART II. ATLANTIC SLAVERY AND THE EARLY RISE OF THE WESTERN WORLD -- 6. Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England -- 7 Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The SlaveSugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization -- 8. The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England -- 9. British Industry and the West Indies Plantations -- PART III. ATLANTIC SLAVERY, THE WORLD OF THE SLAVES, AND THEIR ENDURING LEGACIES -- 10. The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 163°-18°3 -- 11. Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729 -- 12. Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage -- 13. The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today -- 14. The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism -- Index -- Contributors