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Introduction: The Transatlantic Slave https://www.cambridge.org/core , Part i JOSEPH E. INIKORI & STANLEY L. ENGERMAN

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THESE THREE PAPERS were among those presented at a confer­ ence entitled "The Atlantic Slave Trade: Who Gained and Who , on Lost?" held under the auspices of the Insti­ 02 Oct 2021 at 03:47:13 tute of the University of Rochester in October 1988. Other papers from this conference be published in Social Science History over the next several issues, and the full set of papers will be published by Duke University Press.

The conference papers all dealt with the magnitude and impact , subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at of the transatlantic slave trade and its meaning for the peoples transported. Studies dealing with social, economic, and medical history detailed the relation between the slave trade and develop­ ments in , , and the . The three papers in this issue indicate the range of topics and geographic areas covered. Joseph C. Miller expands upon his earlier work to esti­ mate the number of slaves sent from in the eighteenth century and their destinations in the , issues of impor­ tance for understanding demographic patterns in Africa and the Americas, and provides a basis for examining cultural transfers

Joseph E. Inikori is a member of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies and is a professor in the Department of History at

https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. Stanley L. Engerman is professor of economics and history at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627. Social Science History 13:4 (Winter 1989). Copyright © 1989 by the Social Science History Association, ccc 0145-5532/89/$! .50.

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342 SOCIAL SCIENCE HISTORY and developments in the areas receiving slaves. Joseph E. Inikori uses data on British trade to examine one of the major questions https://www.cambridge.org/core posed by , the role of and slave trade in the expansion of the British industry in the period known as the . In a paper dealing with the determinants of mortality in the slave trade, Kenneth F. Kiple and Brian Higgins examine the literature on the nature of the trade and the pro­ visioning of vessels and conclude that "dehydration was by far the biggest cause of slave mortality during the ." Papers in subsequent issues will deal with such topics as the . IP address: effects of the Atlantic slave trade on , mercantilist thought on the slave trade, the rise of , possible relations between mortality in the slave trade and current health condi­ 170.106.202.126 tions of blacks in America, and and the rise of European consumerism.

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