Essays
draw on quantitative and qualitative evidence to cast new light on slavery and
the transatlantic slave as well as on the origins and development of the
African diaspora.
Drawing
on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise,
transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic
world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition
and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast
new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by the
transatlantic slave trade. Engagingly written and attuned to twenty-first
century as well as historical problems and debates, this book will appeal to
specialists interested in cultural, economic, and political analysis of the
slave trade as well as to nonspecialists seeking to understand anew how
transatlantic slavery forever changed Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
PhilipMisevich is assistant professor of history at St. John's University, and
Kristin Mann is professor of history at Emory University.
