Slave Trades, 1500–1800

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Contents: Introduction Overviews: The Mediterranean Islamic slave trade out of Africa: a tentative census, Ralph A. Austen The volume of the Atlantic slave trade: a synthesis, Paul E. Lovejoy Migrations of Africans to the Americas: the impact on Africans, Africa, and the New World, Patrick Manning 15th to 17th centuries: The apprenticeship of colonization, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro From Indian to slave: forced native labour and colonial society in SAGBPo Paulo during the 17th century, John M. Monteiro Sexual demography: the impact of the slave trade on family structure, John Thornton The African presence in Portuguese India, Ann M. Pescatello Black slaves and free blacks in Ottoman Cyprus, 1590-1640, Ronald C. Jennings 18th-century Atlantic trade in humans: Resistance to enslavement in West Africa, Richard Rathbone 'By farr the most profitable trade': slave trading in British colonial north America, Steven Deyle A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system: the Portuguese southern Atlantic slave trade in the 18th century, Joseph C. Miller La traite vers l'IIe de France, Jean-Michel Filliot Sex ratio, age and ethnicity in the Atlantic slave trade: data from French shipping and plantation records, David Geggus Slaves and slave traders in the Persian Gulf, 18th and 19th centuries: an assessment, Thomas M. Ricks Effects of the slave trade: Survival and resistance: slave women and coercive labour regimes in the British Caribbean, 1750 to 1838, Barbara Bush The slave trade, sugar, and British economic growth, 1748-1776, David Richardson The slaving capital of the world: Liverpool and national opinion in the age of abolition, Seymour Drescher Index.