Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830

by Joseph C. Miller

Book Overview

This acclaimed history of Portuguese and Brazilian slaving in the southern Atlantic is now available in paperback. With extraordinary skill, Joseph C. Miller explores the complex relationships among the separate economies of Africa, Europe, and the South Atlantic that collectively supported the slave trade. He places the grim history of the trade itself within the context of the rise of merchant capitalism in the eighteenth century. Throughout, Miller...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299115607
• ISBN13: 9780299115609
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.