Final passages : the intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619-1807 /
Intercolonial slave trade of British America, 1619-1807
Gregory E. O'Malley.
- Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (ix, 394 pages)
- Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Final Passages: Captives in the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- 2. Black Markets for Black Labor: Pirates, Privateers, and Interlopers in the Origins of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, circa 1619-1720 -- 3. Captive Markets for Captive People: Legal Dispersals of Africans in a Peripheral Economy, circa 1640-1700 -- 4. To El Dorado via Slave Trade: Opening Commerce with Foreign Colonies, circa 1660-1713 -- 5. The North American Periphery of the Caribbean Slave Trade, circa 1700-1763 -- 6. A for Asiento: The Slave Trade from British to Foreign Colonies, circa 1713-1739. 7. Entrepôts and Hinterlands: African Migration to the North American Backcountry, circa 1750-1807 -- 8. American Slave Trade, American Free Trade: Climax of the Intercolonial Slave Trade, circa 1750-1807 -- Epilogue: Defending the Human Commodity -- or, Diversity and Diaspora -- Appendix: Estimating the Scale of the Intercolonial Slave Trade -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
This work explores a neglected aspect of the forced migration of African labourers to the Americas. Hundreds of thousands of captive Africans continued their journeys after the Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Colonial merchants purchased and then trans-shipped many of these captives to other colonies for resale. Drawing on a database of more than 7,000 intercolonial slave trading voyages compiled from port records, newspapers, and merchant accounts, the book identifies and quantifies the major routes of this intercolonial slave trade.