West Africa and the transatlantic slave trade: New evidence of long-run trends

Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 16-35

  Eltis, David ^a,b,c   Richardson, David ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c WEB Du Bois Institute for Afro American Research   (United States)

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EID: 85069989179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203044520-2     Document Type: Chapter

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