Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830 - Hardcover

Miller, Joseph C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0299115607 ISBN 13: 9780299115609

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 1988

Synopsis

This acclaimed history of Portuguese and Brazilian slaving in the southern Atlantic is now available in paperback.
    With extraordinary skill, Joseph C. Miller explores the complex relationships among the separate economies of Africa, Europe, and the South Atlantic that collectively supported the slave trade. He places the grim history of the trade itself within the context of the rise of merchant capitalism in the eighteenth century. Throughout, Miller illuminates the experiences of the slaves themselves, reconstructing what can be known of their sufferings at the hands of their buyers and sellers.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Winner of the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association. Also awarded a special citation by the Conference on Latin American History

About the Author:

Joseph C. Miller is T. Cary Johnson, Jr., Professor of History at the University of Virginia. His books include Kings and Kinsmen, Slavery and Slaving in World History, and The African Past Speaks.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0299115607
• ISBN 13: 9780299115609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 770