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Aug 18, 2009 · Summary. Prices of slaves in the Atlantic slave trade are of central importance to understanding not only the slave trade, but also the larger Atlantic economy in the two centuries after 1660. In the last thirty years, a range of sources have yielded data from sales of slaves for the nineteenth century United States, Cuba, Brazil and Mauritius.
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The Portuguese populate their island colonies off the coast of western Africa largely with enslaved Black Africans. The Portuguese also take many African captives back to Portugal.
Spain and Portugal begin establishing colonies in the New World. Large parts of the Caribbean will be depopulated during the European conquest. Increasingly, captives will be shipped from Africa to replace the enslaved Indians.
The Dutch, English, and French also establish colonies in the New World and become major participants in the transatlantic slave trade. A large percentage of their human cargo is taken from the region of West Africa between the Sénégal and Niger rivers. Demand for slave labor rises sharply with the growth of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and t...
The first Africans in English America are brought to the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. (They had been carried on a Portuguese slave ship sailing from Angola to Veracruz, Mexico. While the Portuguese ship was sailing through the West Indies, it was attacked by a Dutch man-of-war and an English ship out of Jamestown. The two attacking ships captured ...
The largest numbers of enslaved Africans are taken to the Americas during this period, accounting for nearly three-fifths of the total volume of the transatlantic slave trade, according to historians’ estimates.
The peak of the transatlantic slave trade is reached. On average some 78,000 enslaved people are brought to the Americas each year of this decade. About half the captives are transported from Africa in ships of British merchants. French and Portuguese traders also transport significant numbers of enslaved people.
In 1789 Olaudah Equiano publishes what many now consider to be the first significant work about an enslaved person’s life. The book is The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. The book becomes well known for its graphic descriptions of the suffering endured by African captives on the transatlantic voyages and helps turn public opinion against the slave trade.
Great Britain abolishes the slave trade with its colonies.
The U.S. Congress bans the importation of slaves into the country.
Spain signs a treaty with Britain in 1817 agreeing to abolish the slave trade. The Spanish ban on the slave trade takes effect in 1820, although illegal smuggling of enslaved persons into Spanish colonial possessions subsequently occurs.
Apr 20, 2021 · Economy. America’s Interstate Slave Trade Once Trafficked Nearly 30,000 People a Year—And Reshaped the Country’s Economy. 7 minute read. The Alexandria slave trading facility once occupied by...
- Joshua D. Rothman
Oct 24, 2003 · long-run trends in produce prices and slave prices prior to the nineteenth century-a basis for the striking findings of the last quarter century on productivity in the late slave Americas. In this article, we draw wide-ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly col-
Emancipation, correspondingly, has been seen as economically damaging. For example, several studies estimate that southern agricultural output fell by one-third from 1860 to 1880, a period of time during which slavery ended in the US.
After that period, few slaves were freed, as the development of cotton plantations featuring short-staple cotton in the Deep South drove up the internal demand for slaves in the domestic slave trade and high prices being paid for them.
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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage.
