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American slavers : merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865
"A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | American slavers : merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865 / Sean M. Kelley |
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New Haven, London :
Yale University Press
, C 2023 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (VIII-479) |
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| Résumé : | "A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery."--Dust jacket |
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| Bibliographie : | Notes bibliogr. p.[403]-460. Index. |
| ISBN : | 978-0-300-26359-6 0-300-26359-7 |