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Part I - Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

David Eltis
Affiliation:
Emory University, Atlanta
Stanley L. Engerman
Affiliation:
University of Rochester, New York
Seymour Drescher
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
David Richardson
Affiliation:
University of Hull
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A Guide to Further Reading

The broad context of global demographic change since 1804 is surveyed in Livi Bacci, Massimo, A Concise History of World Population (Oxford, 2012) and A Short History of Migration (Cambridge, 2012). The Global Slavery Index 2013 is available at www.globalslaveryindex.org.Google Scholar
Major works on Africa include Miers, Suzanne and Kopytoff, Igor (eds.), Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives (Madison, WI, 1977); Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts (eds.), The End of Slavery in Africa (Madison, WI, 1988); Martin Klein, Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (Cambridge, 1998); Paul E. Lovejoy and Jan S. Hogendorn, Slow Death for Slavery: The Course of Abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897–1936 (Cambridge, 1993); Humphrey J. Fisher, Slavery in the History of Muslim Black Africa (New York, 2001); Eric Allina, Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique (Charlottesville, VA, 2012).Google Scholar
The Indian Ocean and its margins are covered by Campbell, Gwyn(ed.), The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London, 2004).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
For Middle Eastern and Ottoman slavery, see Toledano, Ehud R., Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East (Seattle, WA, 1998).Google Scholar
For Asia, see Chatterjee, Indrani and Eaton, Richard M. (eds.), Slavery and South Asian History (Bloomington, IN, 2006); Indrani Chatterjee, Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India (Oxford, 1999); Anthony Reid (ed.), Slavery, Bondage and Dependency in Southeast Asia (Saint Lucia, 1983); Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, “Human Trafficking and Smuggling in China,” Journal of Contemporary China, 20 (2011): 39–52.Google Scholar
For the Americas, see Klein, Herbert S. and Luna, Francisco Vidal, Slavery in Brazil (Cambridge, 2010); B. W. Higman, Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807–1834 (Baltimore, MD, 1984); Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (Boston, MA, 1974).Google Scholar
For sex and gender, see the two-volume collection edited by Campbell, Gwyn, Miers, Suzanne, and Miller, Joseph C., Women and Slavery (Athens, OH, 2007–08); Claire C. Robertson and Martin A. Klein (eds.), Women and Slavery in Africa (Madison, WI, 1983); and Madeline C. Zilfi, Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference (Cambridge, 2010).Google Scholar
Children are studied in Campbell, Gwyn, Miers, Suzanne, and Miller, Joseph C. (eds.), Child Slaves in the Modern World (Athens, OH, 2011).Google Scholar

A Guide to Further Reading

Allen, Richard B., “Satisfying the ‘Want for Labouring People’: European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850,” Journal of World History, 21 (2010): 4573.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Campbell, Gwyn (ed.), The Structure of Slavery in the Indian Ocean, Africa, and Asia (London, 2003).Google Scholar
Clarence-Smith, William Gervase (ed.), The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1989). A special issue of Slavery and Abolition, 9 (1988).Google Scholar
Eltis, David, Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (New York, 1987).Google Scholar
Hunwick, John and Powell, Eve Trout (eds.), The African Diaspora in the Mediterranean Lands of Islam (Princeton, NJ, 2002).Google Scholar
Meagher, Arnold J., The Coolie Trade, the Traffic in Chinese Laborers to Latin America, 1847–1874 (Bloomington, IN, 2010).Google Scholar
Northrup, David, Indentured Labor in the Age of Imperialism, 1834–1922 (Cambridge, 1995).Google Scholar
Pétré-Grenouilleau, Olivier, Les traits négrières: Essai d’histoire globale (Paris, 2004).Google Scholar
Shlomowitz, Ralph, Brennan, L., and McDonald, John, Mortality and Migration in the Modern World (Aldershot, 1996).Google Scholar
Eltis, David, Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, launched 2008, www.slavevoyages.org.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, John, The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade (London, 2007).Google Scholar

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