Middle Passage
Herbert Klein's book makes several distinctive contributions to our understanding of the slave trade. It offers us the first systematic comparative study of major European slave traders based exclusively on archival sources. The author's minimization of the effect of overcrowded slave ships contributes to a longstanding debate regarding the mortality rate of the slaves. His emphasis of the African influences on the character of the slave trade offsets the more frequent emphasis placed on the European influences. Furthermore, Klein maintains that basic similarities existed among the slave-trading practices of all nations, with no one nation be…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4008-4439-5
- EAN: 9781400844395
- Produktnummer: 22638231
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1978
- Seitenangabe: 308 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
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Herbert S. Klein
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