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Autore |
O'Malley Gregory E. |
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Final passages : the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619-1807 / / Gregory E. O'Malley |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : North Carolina Press, , 2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-2984-4 |
1-4696-1555-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (411 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slave trade - Great Britain - History |
Slave trade - Great Britain - Colonies - America - History |
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Great Britain Colonies History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade; 2. Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720; 3. Captive Markets for Captive People: Legal Dispersals of Africans in a Peripheral Economy, ca. 1640-1700; 4. To El Dorado via Slave Trade: Opening Commerce with Foreign Colonies, ca. 1660-1713; 5. The North American Periphery of the Caribbean Slave Trade, ca. 1700-1763; 6. A for Asiento: The Slave Trade from British to Foreign Colonies, ca. 1713-1739 |
7. Entrepôts and Hinterlands: African Migration to the North American Backcountry, ca. 1750-18078. American Slave Trade, American Free Trade: Climax of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1750-1807; Epilogue: Defending the Human Commodity; or, Diversity and Diaspora; Appendix: Estimating the Scale of the Intercolonial Slave Trade; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African labourers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive |
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Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then trans-shipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Drawing on a database of more than 7,000 intercolonial slave trading voyages compiled from port records, newspapers, and merchant accounts, the book identifies and quantifies the major routes of this intercolonial slave trade. |
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