The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade. This revised edition of Rawley's classic, produced with the assistance of Stephen D. Behrendt, includes emended text to reflect the major changes in historiography; current slave trade data tables and accompanying text; updated notes; and the addition of a select bibliography.
- ISBN10 0803205120
- ISBN13 9780803205123
- Publish Date 1 June 2005 (first published 17 October 1981)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Nebraska Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 448
- Language English