Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830
by Joseph Calder Miller
University of Wisconsin Press, 1996 eISBN: 978-0-299-11563-0 | Cloth: 978-0-299-11560-9 | Paper: 978-0-299-11564-7 Library of Congress Classification HT1221.M55 1988 Dewey Decimal Classification 382.4409469
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 illuminates the experiences of the slaves themselves, reconstructing what can be known of their sufferings at the hands of their buyers and sellers.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Joseph C. Miller is T. Cary Johnson, Jr., Professor of History at the University of Virginia. His books include Kings and Kinsmen, Slavery and Slaving in World History, and The African Past Speaks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Maps
Tables and Figures
Translation of a Slave Inventory
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Part 1
Africa: Births and Deaths
Chapter 1
The People of Western Central Africa
Chapter 2
The Value of Material Goods and People in African Political Economies: An Interpretation
Chapter 3
Foreign Imports and Their Uses in the Political Economy of Western Central Africa
Chapter 4
The Production of People: Political Consolidation and the Release of Dependents for Export
Chapter 5
The Demography of Slaving
Part 2
Traders: On the Way
Chapter 6
Bridging the Gap: The Structure of the African Commercial and Transport Sector
Chapter 7
A History of Competition, Comparative Advantage, and Credit: The African Commercial and Transport Sector in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 8
Casualties of Merchant Capital: The Luso-Africans in Angola
Chapter 9
The White Man's Grave: Expatriate Merchants in Luanda
Chapter 10
Floating Tombs: The Maritime Trade of the Brazilians
Chapter 11
Voyage of No Return: The Experience of Enslavement: Flight, Disease, and Death
Part 3
Brazil: The Last Stop
Chapter 12
Trading on the Fringes: The Rise of Brazilian Interests in the Southern Atlantic Slave Trade to the 1770s
Chapter 13
Toward the Center: Brazilian Investment in the Southern Atlantic Trade, ca. 1780–1810
Chapter 14
Back to Trading on the Fringes: Liberalism, Abolition, and the British in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century
Part 4
Portugal: Merchants of Death
Chapter 15
The Slave Duty Contracts in the Southern Atlantic, Before 1760
Chapter 16
“Freedom of Trade” in the Pombal Era, 1755–1772
Chapter 17
The Dry Well, 1772–1810
Chapter 18
Lisbon's Lost Colony, 1810–1830
Part 5
Conclusion
Chapter 19
The Economics of Mortality
Appendix A
Comparative Estimates of Basic Labor Rations
Appendix B
Estimate of Mortality among Slaves Awaiting Sale in the New World
Appendix C
Principal Authors of Documentation Cited
Glossary of Foreign Terms Used in the Text
Glossary of Portuguese Terms Used in the Notes
Works Cited
Index
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Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830
by Joseph Calder Miller
University of Wisconsin Press, 1996 eISBN: 978-0-299-11563-0 Cloth: 978-0-299-11560-9 Paper: 978-0-299-11564-7
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 illuminates the experiences of the slaves themselves, reconstructing what can be known of their sufferings at the hands of their buyers and sellers.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Joseph C. Miller is T. Cary Johnson, Jr., Professor of History at the University of Virginia. His books include Kings and Kinsmen, Slavery and Slaving in World History, and The African Past Speaks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Maps
Tables and Figures
Translation of a Slave Inventory
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Part 1
Africa: Births and Deaths
Chapter 1
The People of Western Central Africa
Chapter 2
The Value of Material Goods and People in African Political Economies: An Interpretation
Chapter 3
Foreign Imports and Their Uses in the Political Economy of Western Central Africa
Chapter 4
The Production of People: Political Consolidation and the Release of Dependents for Export
Chapter 5
The Demography of Slaving
Part 2
Traders: On the Way
Chapter 6
Bridging the Gap: The Structure of the African Commercial and Transport Sector
Chapter 7
A History of Competition, Comparative Advantage, and Credit: The African Commercial and Transport Sector in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 8
Casualties of Merchant Capital: The Luso-Africans in Angola
Chapter 9
The White Man's Grave: Expatriate Merchants in Luanda
Chapter 10
Floating Tombs: The Maritime Trade of the Brazilians
Chapter 11
Voyage of No Return: The Experience of Enslavement: Flight, Disease, and Death
Part 3
Brazil: The Last Stop
Chapter 12
Trading on the Fringes: The Rise of Brazilian Interests in the Southern Atlantic Slave Trade to the 1770s
Chapter 13
Toward the Center: Brazilian Investment in the Southern Atlantic Trade, ca. 1780–1810
Chapter 14
Back to Trading on the Fringes: Liberalism, Abolition, and the British in Brazil in the Nineteenth Century
Part 4
Portugal: Merchants of Death
Chapter 15
The Slave Duty Contracts in the Southern Atlantic, Before 1760
Chapter 16
“Freedom of Trade” in the Pombal Era, 1755–1772
Chapter 17
The Dry Well, 1772–1810
Chapter 18
Lisbon's Lost Colony, 1810–1830
Part 5
Conclusion
Chapter 19
The Economics of Mortality
Appendix A
Comparative Estimates of Basic Labor Rations
Appendix B
Estimate of Mortality among Slaves Awaiting Sale in the New World
Appendix C
Principal Authors of Documentation Cited
Glossary of Foreign Terms Used in the Text
Glossary of Portuguese Terms Used in the Notes
Works Cited
Index
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