Shaping the New World : : African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 /

Shaping the New World : : African Slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 / / Eric Nellis.

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based sl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Nellis, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
©2013
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • A Note on Usage
  • Chronology
  • 1 The Setting for New World Slavery: An Overview
  • 2 The Atlantic Slave Trade
  • 3 Slavery and the Shaping of Colonial Latin America: 1500–1800
  • 4 The Making of the Black Caribbean, 1650–1800
  • 5 Slavery in Prerevolutionary North America: The Making of the “South”
  • 6 The Slave as Person: Women, Children, Family, and Culture
  • 7 The Apogee: Revolutions, Abolitionism, Persistence
  • 8 Conclusion
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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