Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Map of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1501–1867

1. A New Assessment of the Transatlantic Slave Trade,
David Eltis and David Richardson

PART I: Origins and Destinations
2. The Foundations of the System: A Reassessment of the Slave Trade to the Spanish Americas in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
António de Almeida Mendes

3. The Slave Trade to Pernambuco, 1561–1851, Daniel Barros
Domingues da Silva and David Eltis

4. The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Bahia, 1582–1851,
Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro

5. The Origins of Slaves Leaving the Upper Guinea Coast in the Nineteenth Century
Philip Misevich

6. The African Origins of Slaves Arriving in Cuba, 1789–1865,
Oscar Grandío Moráguez

PART II: National Slave Trades
7. The Significance of the French Slave Trade to the Evolution of the French Atlantic World before 1716
James Pritchard, David Eltis, and David Richardson

8. The Dutch in the Atlantic World: New Perspectives from the Slave Trade with Particular Reference to the African Origins of the Traffic
Jelmer Vos, David Eltis, and David Richardson

9. The Slave Trade of Northern Germany from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries
Andrea Weindl

PART III: Some Wider Consequences and Implications of the New Data
10. The Slave Trade, Colonial Markets, and Slave Families in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ca. 1790–ca. 1830
Manolo Florentino

11. The Suppression of the Slave Trade and Slave Departures from Angola, 1830s–1860s
Roquinaldo Ferreira

12. The Demographic Decline of Caribbean Slave Populations: New Evidence from the Transatlantic and Intra-American Slave Trades
David Eltis and Paul Lachance

List of Contributors
Index