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Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619–1807

Gregory E. O‘Malley

Print publication date: 2014

Print ISBN-13: 9781469615349

Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: January 2015

DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469615349.001.0001

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Final Passages
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Gregory E. O’Malley

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University of North Carolina Press
DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469615349.003.0001

This book documents the Atlantic slave trade involving hundreds of thousands of captive Africans who, after the Middle Passage, were forced to travel across the Atlantic, only to be sold to colonial merchants and then transshipped to other colonies for resale. It examines the facets of the intercolonial slave trade, from the trade’s enormous scale to the experiences of captives, the practices of traders, and the policies of empires. It argues that the forced migrations between American colonies is a stark reminder that the Middle Passage was only one part of an arduous journey to American slavery. Finally, the book explains how the intercolonial slave trade facilitated other branches of commerce and influenced imperial policy that saw Britain, France, and Spain make the transition from mercantilism to free trade.

Keywords:   slave trade, Africans, Middle Passage, Atlantic, colonial merchants, forced migrations, slavery, imperial policy, mercantilism, free trade

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