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The middle passage: Comparative studies in the Atlantic slave trade
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The middle passage: Comparative studies in the Atlantic slave trade Paperback - 1978

by Herbert S Klein


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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 being any better than another. Using demographic and other quantitative data, Professor Klein describes the trans-Atlantic slave trade as it was practiced by all of the major European powers during the period of its maximum development. His work spans a century and a half of European trading activity and an area from Senegal to Mozambique in Africa and from the Chesapeake to Guanabara Bay in the Western hemisphere. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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  • Title The middle passage: Comparative studies in the Atlantic slave trade
  • Author Herbert S Klein
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 282p
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
  • Date 1978
  • ISBN 9780691100647
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The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Princeton Legacy Library)
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The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Princeton Legacy Library)

by Klein, Herbert S

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