作者:City University of New York (CUNY) System; Lehman College (CUNY)
作者:Parnassia Psychiatric Institute; University of Hull
摘要:The mortality of enslaved Africans in the Atlantic crossing has long preoccupied historians but the relationship between slave traders' purchasing strategies and slave mortality rates in transit has escaped close investigation. We address these issues by using records of 39 eighteenth-century voyages of the Dutch Middel-burgsche Commercie Compagnie. These allow shipboard mortality rates of enslaved Africans to be estimated. They also reveal previously un-noticed age- and gender-based variation...
作者:Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent; Haber, Steve; Lamoreaux, Naomi; Costa, Dora; Chaudhary, Latika; Moser, Petra; Zolt, Eric
作者:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
作者:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
作者:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill