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The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Patrick Manning
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If the best-known aspects of African slavery remain the horrors of the middle passage and the travail of plantation life in the Americas, recent work has nonetheless provided some important reminders of the Old World ramifications of slavery (Miller 1988; Meillassoux 1986; Miers and Roberts 1988; Manning in press-a). Millions of slaves were sent from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in households and plantations in North Africa and the Middle East and suffered heavy casualties on their difficult journey. Millions more, captured in the same net as those sent abroad, were condemned to slavery on the African continent. The mortality of captives in Africa, therefore, included not only losses among those headed for export at the Atlantic coast but the additional losses among those destined for export to the Orient and among those captured and transported to serve African masters.

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Research Article
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Social Science History , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , Summer 1990 , pp. 255 - 279
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 1990 

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