The Uncommon Market: Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

A history of the Maraka textile industry provides a glimpse into the fitful and uneven social and economic changes taking place during the nineteenth century in the area of the Western Sudan that is now part of Mali. Although the major historical events of this period are well understood, historians know very little about the social and economic history of the West African interior. Exactly how the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, renewed Islamic militancy, and European territorial encroachment influenced African societies remains poorly understood. This is even more apparent for the Middle Niger valley, located near the geographical center of continental West Africa. Paradoxically, the gradual end of the Atlantic slave trade and the coincident expansion of the so-called legitimate trade in agricultural crops increased the use of slaves within Africa to meet demand for all types of African goods. The nineteenth century was thus an era of commodity production and market activity which was probably unparalleled in the history of West Africa prior to this period. The inhabitants of the Middle Niger participated in these changes, and this study describes what these changes meant to one group of African men and women.

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Erratum: The Population History of Luanda during the Late Atlantic Slave Trade, 1781-1844

African Economic History ◽

10.2307/3601613 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 155

Keyword(s):

Slave Trade ◽

Population History ◽

History Of ◽

Atlantic Slave Trade

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Digital Approaches to the History of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.121 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Daryle Williams

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Humanities Computing ◽

Cd Rom ◽

Atlantic Trade ◽

Digital Scholarship ◽

History Of ◽

Atlantic Slave Trade ◽

The 1960S

The robust, sustained interest in the history of the transatlantic slave trade has been a defining feature of the intersection of African studies and digital scholarship since the advent of humanities computing in the 1960s. The pioneering work of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, first made widely available in CD-ROM in 1999, is one of several major projects to use digital tools in the research and analysis of the Atlantic trade from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. Over the past two decades, computing technologies have also been applied to the exploration of African bondage outside the maritime Atlantic frame. In the 2010s, Slave Voyages (the online successor to the original Slave Trade Database compact disc) joined many other projects in and outside the academy that deploy digital tools in the reconstruction of the large-scale structural history of the trade as well as the microhistorical understandings of individual lives, the biography of notables, and family ancestry.

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Slaves and Slavery in Kingston, 1770–1815

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859020000073 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 65 (S28) ◽

pp. 39-65

Author(s):

Trevor Burnard

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

American Revolution ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Early Nineteenth Century ◽

British Atlantic ◽

British America ◽

History Of ◽

Atlantic Slave Trade ◽

The Town

AbstractHistorians have mostly ignored Kingston and its enslaved population, despite it being the fourth largest town in the British Atlantic before the American Revolution and the town with the largest enslaved population in British America before emancipation. The result of such historiographical neglect is a lacuna in scholarship. In this article, I examine one period of the history of slavery in Kingston, from when the slave trade in Jamaica was at its height, from the early 1770s through to the early nineteenth century, and then after the slave trade was abolished but when slavery in the town became especially important. One question I especially want to explore is how Kingston maintained its prosperity even after its major trade – the Atlantic slave trade – was stopped by legislative fiat in 1807.

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