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Slavery and the Slave Trade: New Comparative Approaches

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THE OVERTHROW OF COLONIAL SLAVERY, 1776–1848. By BLACKBURN ROBIN. (London: Verso, 1988. Pp. 560. $19.95.)

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PLANTATION COMPLEX: ESSAYS IN ATLANTIC HISTORY. By CURTIN PHILIP D. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 222. $39.50 cloth, $10.95 paper.)

THE SUGAR CANE INDUSTRY: AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1914. By GALLOWAY J. H. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. 266. $44.50.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

D. R. Murray*
Affiliation:
University of Guelph
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Copyright © 1993 by Latin American Research Review

References

Notes

1. Frank Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in the Americas (New York: Random House, 1946), p. viii.

2. David Brion Davis, Slavery and Human Progress (New York: Oxford University Press, paperback ed., 1986), 52.

3. Elsa Goveia, “The West Indian Slave Laws of the Eighteenth Century,” in Slavery in the New World, edited by Laura Foner and Eugene D. Genovese (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969), 134.

4. Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, vol. 2, The Wheels of Commerce (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), 272.

5. Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (London: Andre Deutsch, 1964).

6. See, for example, David Eltis, Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 207–22.

7. Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modem World System, vol. 3, The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World Economy, 1730–1840s (San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, 1989), 189.