"Written by best contemporary specialist on French slave trade, well-researched study throws light on how the leading 18th-century metropolitan port claimed a growing share of this trade, especially in 1780s, and then of the contraband slave trade in early 1800s"--Handbook of La…
"This book explains how Genoese entrepreneurs transformed the structures of global trade during the second half of the seventeenth century. The author reconstructs the business network built by the Genoese merchant Domenico Grillo between the 1650s and the 1680s. Grillo's busine…
Luanda and the transatlantic slave trade -- Transatlantic encounters: donas, foreign merchants, and the expansion of the slave trade in the South Atlantic -- Feeding Luanda's dwellers and provisioning slave ships -- Selling people illegally -- Meeting the challenges of the trans…
Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the …
As an idealistic and wealthy young man, John B. Prentis expressed outrage over slavery, but as a businessman began trading in slaves in order to finance business ventures and, in so doing, abandoned his earlier belief in justice to pursue wealth through human exploitation. His l…
"While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish p…
"While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish p…
"While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish p…
"While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considerably less has addressed its effects in other parts of the Americas. A rich analysis of a complex subject, this study draws on Portuguese, Brazilian, and Spanish p…
