Final passages : the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619-1807 / Gregory E. O'Malley.

This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African labourers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then trans-shipped many of these captives to other col...

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Main Author: O'Malley, Gregory E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade
  • 2. Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1619-1720
  • 3. Captive Markets for Captive People: Legal Dispersals of Africans in a Peripheral Economy, ca. 1640-1700
  • 4. To El Dorado via Slave Trade: Opening Commerce with Foreign Colonies, ca. 1660-1713
  • 5. The North American Periphery of the Caribbean Slave Trade, ca. 1700-1763
  • 6. A for Asiento: The Slave Trade from British to Foreign Colonies, ca. 1713-1739.
  • 7. Entrepôts and Hinterlands: African Migration to the North American Backcountry, ca. 1750-1807
  • 8. American Slave Trade, American Free Trade: Climax of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, ca. 1750-1807
  • Epilogue: Defending the Human Commodity
  • or, Diversity and Diaspora
  • Appendix: Estimating the Scale of the Intercolonial Slave Trade
  • Index
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