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Title Patterns in the intercolonial slave trade across the Americas before the nineteenth century
Full text https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1vv3v68h
Date 2017
Author(s) O'Malley, Gregory E; Borucki, Alex
Abstract Abstract: The slave trade within the Americas, after the initial disembarkation of African captives in the New World, has received scant attention from historians, especially before the abolition of the transatlantic traffic. This article examines such intra-American trafficking as an introduction to the digital project Final Passages: The Intra-American Slave Trade Database, which aims to document evidence of slave voyages throughout the New World. This article does not provide statistics on this internal slave trade, as ongoing research will deliver new data. Instead, we consolidate qualitative knowledge about these intercolonial slave routes. As the article focuses on the era prior to British and U.S. abolition of the transatlantic trade (1807-1808), we leave out the nineteenth-century domestic slave trades in the United States and Brazil to focus on survivors of the Atlantic crossing who endured subsequent forced movement within the Americas.
Subject(s) Slave Trade; Americas; 16th-18th Centuries
Coverage 314 - 338
Publisher eScholarship, University of California
Type of publication article
Source Tempo, vol 23, iss 2
Rights public
Identifier qt1vv3v68h
Repository Berkeley - University of California
Added to C-A: 2023-02-09;07:34:53