... in the interior of the continent, but with greater intensity between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries CE. The dynamics of the slave trade differed regionally, but the growth of the trans-Atlantic slave trade brought about significant changes to the political economies and cultures along the coasts...

...The history of Nigeria in the nineteenth century was dominated by the collapse of Old Oyo, the rise of the Sokoto Caliphate in the north and Ibadan in the southwest, the abolition of the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST), the institution of legitimate commerce in forest produce, Christian...

...-centralized peoples such as the Igbo in present-day southeastern Nigeria. The chapter presents evidence suggesting that human sacrifice may well have increased in magnitude in the era of the Atlantic slave trade, as increasing levels of militarization and accumulation generated new forms of violence...

... back home. Davis veered toward more extreme positions on reopening the Atlantic slave trade and passing federal legislation to protect slavery in western territories. Meanwhile, Douglas ran for re-election against Abraham Lincoln, a formidable foe who forced him to prove that popular sovereignty could...

...Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa’s Slave Coast in the Precolonial Era. Finn Fuglestad, Oxford University Press (2018). © Finn Fuglestad. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190876104.003.0007 The monumental Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database has its limitations. It tells us, however...

... enslavement differently. Allada Angola and Angolans Anne Apaeâ Athiam Calabar Decoüa Mettas Jean Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database The Agoüya Antilles Creole cultures Dibia Guadeloupe Oulé Senegal Senegalese and Senegambia Akan Bambara Bight of Cunyngham Robert Godomey Grand Popo Igbo...

...The earliest Atlantic slave trade began in the Greater Senegambia. This region was an important source of African slaves, who were shipped to the Americas for the rest of the eighteenth century. This chapter argues that people from the Greater Senegambia have made rich demographic and cultural...

... Bible Kristeva Julia laughter Kristevan Marquis de Sade Les Créoles ou La Vie aux Antilles Levilloux Jules epistemic complicity Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 white gaze creolization women’s rights becoming Deleuzian modernist primitivism Rum Atlantic slave trade Slavery 1848 February...

... and later free African Americans. Documentary evidence indicates that many enslaved Africans were brought to this area of pottery production throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, providing newly arrived cultural influences from societies targeted by the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Edgefield...

... slave trade The archaeology of Africa is littered with migration narratives. Indeed, key migration events from Africa have shaped global history, from the hominin dispersal ‘Out of Africa’ (Barham, Ch. 24 below) to the more recent forced exodus of the Atlantic slave trade (Thiaw and Richard, Ch. 68...

...This chapter explain how the business of slavery encouraged the emergence of slavery. Prior to the pursuit of commerce in the Atlantic economy, Rhode Islanders sought to restrict and even ban slaveholding; however, once they began to participate in the West Indian and Atlantic slave trades...

... indicating that Mexico's “third root” (Africans and their descendants) can be traced to the early colonial period. They probably came to Mexico during that time and, more specifically, the Yucatan came together with the Spanish conquistadors. The trans-Atlantic slave trade, which began in the Antilles...

...This chapter examines the role of Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic slave trade. It discusses the three phases of the African slave trade, each succeeding phase numerically larger than its predecessor. In the century and a half of the first phase (1500–1640), nearly 800,000 Africans embarked...

... plantations Urriza Ignacio de Ouidah African Slave Trade Trans-Atlantic slave trade Inter-Caribbean slave trade Middle Passage How did Juan Nepomuceno Prieto travel from Ouidah to Havana? And what were his experiences during the Middle Passage involving the inter-Caribbean slave trade? To answer...

... where it's due and to aid further exploration of what they pioneered. The chapter then jumps to emphasize that slavery, historically, is a vast subject, international in scope and predating the Atlantic slave trade with which this book is concerned. The chapter explains that even within the confines...

... the fruits of inheritance to purchase more enslaved Africans, further tying the material wealth of colonial families to the Atlantic slave trade. Free and freed women with African ancestry as slaveholders Harrison Sarah free woman of African descent Inheritance Maroon War 1728–1739 Disease Jamaica...

... Adriaen Essequibo St Eustatius Walreven Jan Curaçao Hamitic myth Nieuw Nederlantsche Indiaen ship Selyns Henricus West India Company Basseliers Johannes religion and trade Second Anglo Dutch War Specht Philippus Suriname Reformed Church slavery Atlantic slave trade Africans Native...

...This chapter turns to a group of critics on the fringes of the Scottish Enlightenment who deployed ridicule for a very different political cause: the campaign against the Atlantic slave trade. William Dickson, Alexander Geddes and James Tytler all set out to expose defenders of African slavery...

...-century economy: from the politics of empire, to the revolution in government finance, to the Atlantic slave trade, to legal reforms related to land. One pivotal moment was Parliament's Stamp Act of 1765, which many historians view as the act that triggered the American Revolution. The book suggests...

...Figure 7.1 Estimated absolute and relative volume of the Atlantic slave trade under the British flag, 1600–1815 Source: Based on the Slave Voyages (2022a) data set. Figure 7.2 Estimated absolute and relative volume of the Atlantic slave trade under the Portuguese...