Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures)

Containing records of some 25,000 slaving voyages between 1595 and 1867, this data set forms the basis of most of the papers included in this collection. Other papers offer quantitative analysis in the ethnicity of slaves, mortality trends and slaves' reconstruction of their identities.