Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America

Galenson, David W.

ISBN 10: 0521308453 / ISBN 13: 9780521308458

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521308453
• ISBN 13: 9780521308458
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 17 ounces

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Synopsis

The explosive growth of the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the seventeenth century made the international trade in Africans one of the world's largest industries. This book explores the operation of that industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, focusing on the market behaviour of the Royal African Company - the largest English company engaged in the slave trade - and the sugar planters of the Caribbean, who were the trade's principal customers in English America. A richly detailed portrayal of the slave trade to English America emerges, one that shows it to have been a highly competitive and efficient transatlantic market. In revealing the existence of sophisticated and complex market behaviour in this early period of black slavery in the New World, the book adds to our understanding of the development of large-scale competitive markets, as well as to our knowledge of the efficiency of resource allocation in early English America.

Book Description

This book explores the operation of the Atlantic slave trade industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, focusing on the market behaviour of the Royal African Company - the largest English company engaged in the slave trade - and the sugar planters of the Caribbean.