Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter ii
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. 1. A New Assessment of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, David Eltis and David Richardson 1
7. Part I: Origins and Destinations
8. 2. The Foundations of the System: A Reassessment of the Slave Trade to the Spanish Americas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, António de Almeida Mendes 63
9. 3. The Slave Trade to Pernambuco, 1561–1851 95
10. 4. The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Bahia, 1582–1851 130
11. 5. The Origins of Slaves Leaving the Upper Guinea Coast in the Nineteenth Century 155
12. 6. The African Origins of Slaves Arriving in Cuba, 1789–1865 176
13. Part II: National Slave Trades
14. 7. The Significance of the French Slave Trade to the Evolution of the French Atlantic World before 1716 205
15. 8. The Dutch in the Atlantic World: New Perspectives from the Slave Trade with Particular Reference to the African Origins of the Traffic 228
16. 9. The Slave Trade of Northern Germany from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries 250
17. Part III: Some Wider Consequences and Implications of the New Data
18. 10. The Slave Trade, Colonial Markets, and Slave Families in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ca. 1790–ca. 1830 275
19. 11. The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s–1860s 313
20. 12. The Demographic Decline of Caribbean Slave Populations: New Evidence from the Transatlantic and Intra-American Slave Trades 335
21. Contributors 365
22. Index 367