Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina

Kelley, Sean M.

doi:10.1080/0144039x.2012.709040

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“…The slaves deemed not to be prime were then “disposed of at prices according to their goodness & the demand at the time of the sale,” as the Jamaican factor explained, sometimes in large lots at the end of the sale 9 . This sale procedure certainly occurred in Jamaica, Saint Kitts, Saint Vincent, and South Carolina, and probably throughout the remainder of the British Atlantic (Radburn 2015; Kelley 2013; Burnard and Morgan 2001). 10 Once the sale had been completed the factor calculated the “average” slave price by dividing the gross proceeds of the sale by the number of slaves sold, a figure that the ship owners used to decide where to order their captains in future.…”

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Keeping “the wheel in motion”: Trans-Atlantic Credit Terms, Slave Prices, and the Geography of Slavery in the British Americas, 1755–1807

Radburn¹

2015

J. Econ. Hist.

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This article uses a new dataset of 330 slaving voyages to examine terms of credit issued for British American slave sales between 1755 and 1807. It shows that credit terms consistently varied between American colonies, and that slave ship captains considered these differences when electing where to land enslaved Africans. Our dataset also shows that credit terms were highly erratic, especially in the last quarter of the century, contributing to both surges and collapses in the slave trade to individual colonies, and in the trade as a whole. Four such instances are examined in detail to show that instability in credit terms played an important and hitherto unacknowledged role in the volume and direction of Britain's trans-Atlantic slave trade in the second one-half of the eighteenth century.

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Keeping “the wheel in motion”: Trans-Atlantic Credit Terms, Slave Prices, and the Geography of Slavery in the British Americas, 1755–1807

Radburn¹

2015

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…Others, particularly critics of the social death thesis, have seen the slave ship as a locus of bonding among Africans (Hawthorne, 2008). Regardless of one's perspective, both works deserve credit for making the mechanics of the slave trade central to our understanding of colonial slavery (e.g., Head, 2013;Heywood & Thornton, 2007;Kelley, 2013Kelley, , 2016Mustakeem, 2016;O'Malley, 2014O'Malley, , 2017.…”

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DB or not DB: Writing the history of the slave trade to North America in the era of the database

Kelley

2019

History Compass

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Since the publication of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (now known as Voyages) in 1999, it has occupied an important place the study of the North American slave trade. Some historians, particularly those interested in the African Diaspora and African American culture, have embraced its ability to elucidate the specific connections between Africa and North America over time. While most historians have accepted the validity of the database, some have criticized the database's tendency to privilege quantitative abstraction over a more “human” narrative. A smaller number still have rejected the estimates offered by the database specifically regarding the number of Africans disembarked in the United States after 1808, but most scholars in the field have accepted the Voyages estimates. There are now plans to link the Voyages database with a number of other slavery‐related digital history projects, which suggests that the era of the database is here to stay.

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Slaves and Slavery in Kingston, 1770–1815

Burnard

2020

Int Rev of Soc His

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Historians have mostly ignored Kingston and its enslaved population, despite it being the fourth largest town in the British Atlantic before the American Revolution and the town with the largest enslaved population in British America before emancipation. The result of such historiographical neglect is a lacuna in scholarship. In this article, I examine one period of the history of slavery in Kingston, from when the slave trade in Jamaica was at its height, from the early s through to the early nineteenth century, and then after the slave trade was abolished but when slavery in the town became especially important. One question I especially want to explore is how Kingston maintained its prosperity even after its major tradethe Atlantic slave tradewas stopped by legislative fiat in .

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Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina

Cited by 5 publications

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Keeping “the wheel in motion”: Trans-Atlantic Credit Terms, Slave Prices, and the Geography of Slavery in the British Americas, 1755–1807

Keeping “the wheel in motion”: Trans-Atlantic Credit Terms, Slave Prices, and the Geography of Slavery in the British Americas, 1755–1807

DB or not DB: Writing the history of the slave trade to North America in the era of the database

Slaves and Slavery in Kingston, 1770–1815

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