Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

by D Eltis (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2008

  $120.40

  Research efforts have increased what is known about the history of coerced migration of transatlantic slaves. A database of slave trade voyages from Columbus' era to mid-nineteenth century is available on an open-access Web site. This text includes essays that draw on these data to explore fundamental questions about trade in African slaves.