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Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 / Eric Nellis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: Eng Series: International themes and issues (Toronto, Ont.) ; v. 3.Publication details: North York, Ontario, Canada : University of Toronto Press, [2013]Description: xix, 183 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781442605558
  • 1442605553
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Shaping the New World.DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62097
LOC classification:
  • HT 1048 N422s 2013
Issued also in electronic format.
Contents:
The setting for New World slavery : an overview -- The Atlantic slave trade -- Slavery and the shaping of colonial Latin America : 1500-1800 -- The making of the black Caribbean, 1650-1800 -- Slavery in prerevolutionary North America : the making of the "South" -- The slave as person : women, children, family, and culture -- The apogee : revolutions, abolitionism, persistence -- Conclusion.
Summary: Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Eric Nellis's remarkable synthesis, Shaping the New World, introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies. Serving as the third book in the UTP/CHA International Themes and Issues Series, Shaping the New World introduces readers to the topic of African slavery in the New World from a comparative perspective, specifically focusing on the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch slave systems.
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Co-published by: Canadian Historical Association.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index.

Issued also in electronic format.

The setting for New World slavery : an overview -- The Atlantic slave trade -- Slavery and the shaping of colonial Latin America : 1500-1800 -- The making of the black Caribbean, 1650-1800 -- Slavery in prerevolutionary North America : the making of the "South" -- The slave as person : women, children, family, and culture -- The apogee : revolutions, abolitionism, persistence -- Conclusion.

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Eric Nellis's remarkable synthesis, Shaping the New World, introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies. Serving as the third book in the UTP/CHA International Themes and Issues Series, Shaping the New World introduces readers to the topic of African slavery in the New World from a comparative perspective, specifically focusing on the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch slave systems.

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