The Atlantic Slave Trade: Volume II Seventeenth Century

Originally published as a collection in 2006, this volume discusses the development of the Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, looking at issues such as how African societies reacted to the trade; the economic origins of black slavery in the British West Indies; and the growth of plantations responding to changes in European diet particularly the rise of the sugar economy. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes.