Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America

by David W. Galenson

Book Overview

The explosive growth of the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the seventeenth century made the international trade in Africans one of the world's largest industries. This book explores the operation of that industry in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, focusing on the market behaviour of the Royal African Company - the largest English company engaged in the slave trade - and the sugar planters of the Caribbean, who were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052189414X
• ISBN13: 9780521894142
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"