Traders in men : merchants and the transformation of the transatlantic slave trade / Nicholas Radburn.
| Author/creator | Radburn, Nicholas author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023] |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | xii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Connecting the frontiers : British merchants, African middlemen, and the making of the Atlantic slaving ports -- Cross-cultural trade and the sale of enslaved people in Atlantic Africa -- Merchants and the creation of the floating dungeon -- Guinea factors and the forced migration of enslaved people with in Americas -- Many middle passages : Merchants, planters and the American slave trade -- Epilogue : Traders in men during the Age of Revolutions, circa 1775-1808. |
| Abstract | "During the eighteenth century, Britain's slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the eve of the American Revolution, grown into an Atlantic-wide system through which fifty thousand men, women, and children were enslaved every year. In this sweeping new history, Nicholas Radburn explains how thousands of slaving merchants in Africa, Britain, and the British Americas collectively created this cancerous system by devising highly efficient, but also violent, new business methods. African brokers developed commercial techniques that facilitated the enslavement and sale of millions of people. Britons invented shipping methods that quelled enslaved people's constant resistance on the Middle Passage. And American slave traders formulated brutal techniques through which shiploads of people could be quickly sold to a variety of colonial buyers. Truly Atlantic-wide in its vision, this study shows how the slave trade became one of the most important phenomena in world history and dragged millions of people into the trade's terrible vortex."-- From publisher's website. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023930077 |
| ISBN | 9780300257618 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300257619 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HT1332 .R332 2023 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |