Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades - Hardcover

Eltis, David

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9781009518970: Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1009518976 ISBN 13: 9781009518970
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by slavevoyages.org, Eltis offers compelling explanations of why the slave trades began and why they ended, and in the process debunks long-held assumptions, including how bilateral rather than triangular voyages were the norm, and how the Portuguese rather than the British were the leading slave traders. Eltis argues that two-thirds of all enslaved people ended up in the Iberian Americas, where exports were most valuable throughout the slave trade era, and not in the Caribbean or the US. Tracing the mass involvement of people in the slave trade business from all parts of the Atlantic World, Eltis also examines the agency of Africans and their experiences in the aftermath of liberation.

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About the Author

David Eltis is Professor Emeritus at Emory University and the University of British Columbia. He is a founding member of www.slavevoyages.org, a publicly accessible transatlantic slave trade database. His three sole authored books have won twelve prizes, including the Frederick Douglass Prize.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1009518976
ISBN 13 
9781009518970
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
442
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  • 4.08 out of 5 stars
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