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Summary

"[This volume] will become an important milestone in the investigation of the issue of the extent to which western modern economic growth found its impetus in slavery."--Jay R. Mandle, Colgate University

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Social Cost in Africa of Forced Migration
The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan
Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904
The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade
The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System
Atlantic Slavery and the Early Rise of the Western World
Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England
Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The Slave-Sugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization
The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England
British Industry and the West Indies Plantations
Atlantic Slavery, The World of the Slaves, and Their Enduring Legacies
The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 1630-1803
Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729
Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage
The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today
The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism
Index
Contributors
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