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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787953903321

Autore

O'Malley Gregory E.

Titolo

Final passages : the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619-1807 / / Gregory E. O'Malley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : North Carolina Press, , 2014

ISBN

979-88-908469-6-9

1-4696-2984-4

1-4696-1555-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

306.3620941

Soggetti

Slave trade - Great Britain - History

Slave trade - Great Britain - Colonies - America - History

Great Britain Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African labourers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive



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.