3D SER., 58, NO. 1 (JANUARY 2001)
Preface
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Acknowledgments
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Foreword
David Brion Davis and Robert P. Forbes
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A New Census
Barbara L. Solow
9
The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment | Web Supplement
David Eltis
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African Conceptions of Gender and the Slave Traffic | Web Supplement
G. Ugo Nwokeji
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Shipboard Revolts, African Authority, and the Atlantic Slave Trade
David Richardson
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Transoceanic Mortality: The Slave Trade in Comparative Perspective | Web Supplement
Herbert S. Klein, Stanley L. Engerman, Robin Haines, and Ralph Shlomowitz
93
The French Slave Trade: An Overview
David Geggus
119
The Chesapeake Slave Trade: Regional Patterns, African Origins, and Some Implications | Web Supplement
Lorena S. Walsh
139
Markets, Transaction Cycles, and Profits: Merchant Decision Making in the British Slave Trade
Stephen D. Behrendt
171
The Dynamics of the Slave Market and Slave Purchasing Patterns in Jamaica, 655–1788
Trevor Burnard and Kenneth J. Morgan
205
The Slave Trade as History and Memory: Confrontations of Slaving Voyage Documents and Communal Traditions
Ralph A. Austen
229
Considering the Slave Trade: History and Memory
Bernard Bailyn
245
Reviews of Books
Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas . By Stephanie E. Smallwood253
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM, ed. Eltis, Behrendt, Richardson, and Klein By Stephanie E. Smallwood253
Teaching the Literatures of Early America , ed. Mulford. By Ivy T. Schweitzer261
Scanlan, Colonial Writing and the New World, 583–1671: Allegories of Desire . By Peter Hulme270
Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida . By Daniel C. Littlefield272
Din, Spaniards, Planters, and Slaves: The Spanish Regulation of Slavery in Louisiana, 763–1803 . By Jennifer M. Spear276
Butler, Becoming America: The Revolution before 776 . By Ruth H. Bloch278
Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America . By Marilyn C. Baseler282
Baseler, “Asylum for Manking”: America, 1607–1800 . By Anita Tien285
Hoffman and Mason, Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 500–1782 . By Richard S. Dunn288
Onuf, Jefferson? Empire: The Language of American Nationhood . By James T. Kloppenberg291
Gardner, Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 787–1845 . By Dana D. Nelson294
Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans . By Paul E. Johnson296
Hodges, Slavery, Freedom, and Culture among Early American Workers . By Michele Gillespie300
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