Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Slavery and colonization
- 2 The Old World background of slavery in the Americas
- 3 Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492–1713
- 4 The Dutch and the making of the second Atlantic system
- 5 Precolonial western Africa and the Atlantic economy
- 6 A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system: The Portuguese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century
- 7 The apprenticeship of colonization
- 8 Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens
- 9 The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution
- 10 Slavery, trade, and economic growth in eighteenth-century New England
- 11 Economic aspects of the growth of slavery in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake
- 12 Credit in the slave trade and plantation economies
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Slavery and colonization
- 2 The Old World background of slavery in the Americas
- 3 Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492–1713
- 4 The Dutch and the making of the second Atlantic system
- 5 Precolonial western Africa and the Atlantic economy
- 6 A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system: The Portuguese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century
- 7 The apprenticeship of colonization
- 8 Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens
- 9 The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution
- 10 Slavery, trade, and economic growth in eighteenth-century New England
- 11 Economic aspects of the growth of slavery in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake
- 12 Credit in the slave trade and plantation economies
- Index
Summary
THE chapters in this volume were originally presented at a conference on “Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System,” held at Harvard University on September 4–5, 1988. The conference was sponsored by the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University and was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
We are grateful to Randall K. Burkett, Associate Director of the DuBois Institute, Martha Moore, Staff Assistant, and Daniel Miller and Layn St. Louis, graduate students, for their indispensable assistance.
This volume is dedicated to the memory of the late director of the DuBois Institute, Nathan I. Huggins: scholar, teacher, colleague, and friend.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991