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Way of death: merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830
Joseph Calder Miller
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Frontmatter
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Maps (page x)
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Tables and Figures (page xi)
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Translation of a Slave Inventory (page xii)
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Preface (page xv)
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Acknowledgments (page xxv)
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Abbreviations Used in Notes (page xxix)
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Part 1 Africa: Births and Deaths
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Chapter 1 The People of Western Central Africa (page 3)
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Chapter 2 The Value of Material Goods and People in African Political Economies: An Interpretation (page 40)
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Chapter 3 Foreign Imports and Their Uses in the Political Economy of Western Central Africa (page 71)
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Chapter 4 The Production of People: Political Consolidation and the Release of Dependents for Export (page 105)
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Chapter 5 The Demography of Slaving (page 140)
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Part 2 Traders: On the Way
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Chapter 6 Bridging the Gap: The Structure of the African Commercial and Transport Sector (page 173)
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Chapter 7 A History of Competition, Comparative Advantage, and Credit: The African Commercial and Transport Sector in the Eighteenth Century (page 207)
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Chapter 8 Casualties of Merchant Capital: The Luso-Africans in Angola (page 245)
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Chapter 9 The White Man's Grave: Expatriate Merchants in Luanda (page 284)
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Chapter 10 Floating Tombs: The Maritime Trade of the Brazilians (page 314)
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Chapter 11 Voyage of No Return: The Experience of Enslavement: Flight, Disease, and Death (page 379)
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Part 3 Brazil: The Last Stop
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Chapter 12 Trading on the Fringes: The Rise of Brazilian Interests in the Southern Atlantic Trade to the 1770s (page 445)
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Chapter 13 Toward the Center: Brazilian Investment in the Southern Atlantic Trade, ca. 1780-1810 (page 482)
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Chapter 14 Back to Trading on the Fringes: Liberalism, Abolition, and the British in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century (page 505)
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Part 4 Portugal: Merchants of Death
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Chapter 15 The Slave Duty Contracts in the Southern Atlantic, Before 1760 (page 535)
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Chapter 16 "Freedom of Trade" in the Pombal Era, 1755-1772 (page 570)
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Chapter 17 The Dry Well, 1772-1810 (page 598)
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Chapter 18 Lisbon's Lost Colony, 1810-1830 (page 634)
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Part 5 Conclusion
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Chapter 19 The Economics of Mortality (page 657)
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Appendix A Comparative Estimates of Basic Labor Rations (page 695)
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Appendix B Estimate of Mortality among Slaves Awaiting Sale in the New World (page 701)
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Appendix C Principal Authors of Documentation Cited (page 703)
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Glossary of Foreign Terms Used in the Text (page 709)
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Glossary of Portuguese Terms Used in the Notes (page 714)
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Works Cited (page 717)
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Index (page 747)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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ENHR | 108.426 (1993): 216-217 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199301%29108%3A426%3C216%3AWODMCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
AHR | 97.2 (1992): 465-485 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199204%2997%3A2%3C465%3ASIAATS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q |
PPR | 131 (1991): 204-216 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-2746%28199105%290%3A131%3C204%3AJMWOD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 |
JAFH | 32.1 (1991): 137-139 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8537%281991%2932%3A1%3C137%3ATPSTFA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
AHR | 95.4 (1990): 1262-1263 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199010%2995%3A4%3C1262%3AWODMCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q |
IJAHS | 23.1 (1990): 151-152 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281990%2923%3A1%3C151%3AWODMCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0 |
JEH | 49.3 (1989): 752-753 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198909%2949%3A3%3C752%3AWODMCA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G |
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Published: c1988
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
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