Preface  vii

1. Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade / Joseph E. Inikori and Stanley L. Engerman  1

Part I. The Social Cost in Africa of Forced Migration  

2. The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan / Martin A. Klein  25

3. Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 19001904 / Jan Hogendorn and Paul E. Lovejoy  49

4. The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade / Joseph C. Miller  77

5. The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System / Patrick Manning  117

Part II. Atlantic Slavery and the Early Rise of the Western World  

6. Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England / Joseph E. Inikori  145

7. Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The Slave-Sugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization / Ralph A. Austen and Woodruff D. Smith  183

8. The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England / Ronald Bailey  205

9. British Industry and the West Indies Plantations / William Darity Jr.  247

Part III. Atlantic Slavery, The World of the Slaves, and Their Enduring Legacies  

10. The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 16301803 / Johannes Postma  283

11. Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 17201729 / David Barry Gaspar  301

12. Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage / Kenneth F. Kiple and Brian T. Higgins  339

13. The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today / Thomas W. Wilson and Clarence E. Grim  339

14. The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism / Seymour Drescher  361

Index  397

Contributors  411

Joseph E. Inikori

Stanley L. Engerman

Martin A. Klein

Jan Hogendorn

Joseph E. Inikori

Ronald Bailey

William A. Darity

Johannes Postma

David Barry Gaspar

Kenneth F. Kiple

Brian T. Higgins

Thomas W. Wilson

Clarence E. Grim

Seymour Drescher

"This is cutting-edge, state of the art history-economics on the Atlantic slave trade."—Vernon Burton, University of Illinois

"[This volume] will become an important milestone in the investigation of the issue of the extent to which western modern economic growth found its impetus in slavery."—Jay R. Mandle, Colgate University

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