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- Title
AMSTERDAM MERCHANTS IN THE SLAVE TRADE AND AFRICAN COMMERCE, 1580s-1670s.
- Authors
Antunes, Catia; Da Silva, Filipa Ribeiro
- Abstract
The article discusses the role and importance of the slave trade to dutch merchants involved in commerce in Africa from the 1580s to the 1670s. Research on this episode in economic history was gathered from the Transantlantic Slave Trade Database (TSTD) and notarial archives of the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The author's work is informed by the proposition that capitalism, slavery, and industrial development are intrinsically linked, as advanced by the economist Eric Williams in 1984. The major vehicle for this trade was the Dutch West India Company and private merchants.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; AFRICA; SLAVE trade; SLAVE traders; ECONOMIC history -- 1600-1750; ECONOMIC history; MERCHANTS; WILLIAMS, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981; SIXTEENTH century; HISTORY of slave trades
- Publication
TSEG: The Low Countries Journal of Social & Economic History / Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 4, p3
- ISSN
1572-1701
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18352/tseg.289