The Atlantic slave trade : effects on economies, societies, and peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

"[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

• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman
• Part I The Social Cost in Africa of Forced Migration
• 2 The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan Martin A. Klein
• 3 Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904 Jan Hogendorn and Paul E. Lovejoy
• 4 The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade Joseph C. Miller
• 5 The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System Patrick Manning
• Part II Atlantic Slavery and the Early Rise of the Western World
• 6 Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England Joseph E. Inikori
• 7 Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The Slave-Sugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization Ralph A. Austen and Woodruff D. Smith
• 8 The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England Ronald Bailey
• 9 British Industry and the West Indies Plantations William Darity Jr.
• Part III Atlantic Slavery, The World of the Slaves, and Their Enduring Legacies
• 10 The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 1630-1803 Johannes Postma
• 11 Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729 David Barry Gaspar
• 12 Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage Kenneth F. Kiple and Brian T. Higgins
• 13 The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today Thomas W. Wilson and Clarence E. Grim
• 14 The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism Seymour Drescher
• Index
• Contributors