Way of death merchant capitalism and the Angolan slave trade, 1730-1830 - Miller, Joseph Calder (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 717-745) and index
The people of Western Central Africa -- The value of material goods and people in African political ecnomies: 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