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Way of death: merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830

Miller, Joseph Calder.

Year: c1988.

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

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 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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Title:

Way of death : merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830 Joseph C. Miller.

Author:

Miller, Joseph Calder

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Way of death : merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830 Joseph C. Miller.
Miller, Joseph Calder
Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, c1988.

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Subject Headings:

• Slave trade -- Portugal -- History
• Slave trade -- Angola -- History
• Slave traders -- Angola -- History
• Slave trade -- Brazil -- History
• Portugal -- Commercial policy -- History
• Brazil -- Commerce -- History

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