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VG-/VG-(ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear but pages are otherwise very clean and clear. ) Burgundy cloth boards with silver lettering; burgundy dj with bw illustration; xxx, 770 pp, bw illustrations. Contents: The people of Western Central Africa--The value of material goods and people in African political economies: an interpretation--Foreign imports and their uses in the political economy of Western Central Africa--The production of people: political consolidation and the release of dependents for export--The demography of slaving--Bridging the gap: the structure of the African commercial and transport sector--A history of competition, comparative advantage, and credit: the African commercial and transport sector in the eighteenth century--Casualties of merchant capital: the Luso-Africans in Angola--The white man's grave: expatriate merchants in Luanda--Floating tombs: the maritime trade of the Brazilians.; Voyage of no return: the experience of enslavement: flight disease, and death--Trading on the fringes: the rise of Brazilian interests in the Southern Atlantic slave trade to the 1770s--Toward the center: Brazilian investment in the Southern Atlantic trade, ca. 1780-1810--Back to trading on the fringes: liberalism, abolition, and the British in Brazil in the nineteenth century--The slave duty contracts in the Southern Atlantic, before 1760--"Freedom of trade" in the Pombal Era, 1755-1772--The dry well, 1772-1810--Lisbon's lost colony, 1810-1830--The economics of mortality.; Appendix A. Comparative estimates of basic labor rations--Appendix B. Estimate of mortality among slaves awaiting sale in the new world--Appendix C. Principal authors of documentation cited.