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American slavers : merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865 Cover Image Book Book
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American slavers : merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865 / Sean M. Kelley.

Kelley, Sean M., 1966- (author.). Yale University Press, (publisher.).

Summary:
"A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery."--Dust jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780300263596
  • ISBN: 0300263597
  • Physical Description: viii, 479 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New Haven ; Yale University Press, [2023]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-460) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction: Ships Coming In, Ships Going Out -- Part 1. SLAVERS AS SETTLERS, 1644 -1700 -- Portudal, Senegambia, the Dry Season, 1645 -- One Puritan Slavers, 1644 -1700 -- Two The Madagascar Moment, 1680 -1700 -- Part Two. SLAVERS AS BRITONS 1700-1775 -- Newport, Rhode Island, December 5, 1752 -- Three Newport and the Rise of the Rum Men, 1700-1750 -- Four Knowledge and Networks, 1751-1775 -- Part Three SLAVERS AS AMERICANS 1775-1807 -- Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, September 19, 1775 -- Five Revolution and Reorientation, 1775-1803 -- Six Crescendo, 1804 -1807 -- Part Four LIFE AND DEATH IN THE SLAVE TRADE 1700-1807 -- Newport, Rhode Island, Present Day -- Seven Captivity -- Eight Slave-Trading Communities -- Part Five SLAVERS AS OUTLAWS 1808-1865 -- Mediterranean Sea, 1830 -- Nine Evasion, 1808 -1835 -- Ten Shills, Hirelings, and True Believers, 1835-1865 -- Conclusion A Reckoning of Accounts -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Subject: Slave trade > United States > History.
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