Slave Trades, 1500–1800

Globalization of Forced Labour

Patrick Manning

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781351899772
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

The trade in slaves is perhaps the most notorious feature of the era of European expansion. Though begun in ancient times, and continued well after 1800, in the early modern period there developed a particular nexus in which it boomed. This volume distinguishes between procurement and trade, and the exploitation of settled slaves (the subject of a separate volume in the series, edited by Judy Bieber), and underscores the importance of the slave trade as a factor in world history. A rank redistribution of wealth and power, it permitted the exploitation and reconstruction of much of the globe. The articles address issues of the volume and flow of trade, the various populations enslaved, factors of sex, age, and ethnicity, and its impact on economic change, as in the monetization of Africa or economic growth in England.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• General Editor’s Preface
• Introduction
• PART 1 Overviews
• PART 2 Fifteenth To 17Th Centuries
• PART 3 Eighteenth Century Atlantic Trade In Humans
• PART 4 Effects of the Slave Trade
• Index