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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : O'Malley, Gregory E.
Titre(s) : Final passages [Texte imprimé] : the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619-1807 / Gregory E. O'Malley
Publication : Chapel Hill (N.C.) : University of North Carolina Press, copyright 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-394 p.) : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African laborers
to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys
after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then
transshipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Not only did this
trade increase death rates and the social and cultural isolation of Africans; it also
fed the expansion of British slavery and trafficking of captives to foreign empires,
contributing to Britain's preeminence in the transatlantic slave trade by the mid-eighteenth
century. The pursuit of profits from exploiting enslaved people as commodities facilitated
exchanges across borders, loosening mercantile restrictions and expanding capitalist
networks. Drawing on a database of over seven thousand intercolonial slave trading
voyages compiled from port records, newspapers, and merchant accounts, O'Malley identifies
and quantifies the major routes of this intercolonial slave trade. He argues that
such voyages were a crucial component in the development of slavery in the Caribbean
and North America and that trade in the unfree led to experimentation with free trade
between empires."--Publisher's Web site
Sujet(s) : Traite des esclaves -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Traite des esclaves -- Colonies britanniques -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781469615349. - ISBN 1469615347 (br.). - ISBN 9781469615356 (erroné). - ISBN
9781469629841. - ISBN 1469629844
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46902774t
Notice n° :
FRBNF46902774
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade ; Black Markets for Black
Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave
Trade, ca. 1619-1720 ; Captive Markets for Captive People: Legal Dispersals of Africans
in a Peripheral Economy, ca. 1640-1700 ; To El Dorado via Slave Trade: Opening Commerce
with Foreign Colonies, ca. 1660-1713 ; The North American Periphery of the Caribbean
Slave Trade, ca. 1700-1763 ; A for Asiento: The Slave Trade from British to Foreign
Colonies, ca. 1713-1739 ; Entrepôts and Hinterlands: African Migration to the North
American Backcountry, ca. 1750-1807 ; 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.
