Herbert S. Klein

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Herbert S. Klein



Average rating: 3.64 · 379 ratings · 39 reviews · 49 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Concise History of Bolivia

3.58 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions
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The Atlantic Slave Trade

3.64 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions
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African Slavery in Latin Am...

3.67 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions
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A Population History of the...

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Slavery in Brazil

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Feeding the World: Brazil's...

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Slavery in the Americas: A ...

3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1967 — 10 editions
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Bolivia: The Evolution of a...

3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions
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Brazil, 1964-1985: The Mili...

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Historia mínima de la escla...

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“extensive history of Europeans enslaving each other would suggest that there was nothing special about the Africans and slavery in the European mind at the end of the 15th century. Finally, it was not any special need for such Africans within the European economy that was the driving force behind the purchase of enslaved Africans on the Atlantic African coast. It was without question American labor market conditions that most influenced the growth of the Atlantic slave trade. At the same time, the choice of Africans had much to do with their availability and price as opposed to the nonavailability of”
Herbert S. Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

“Until the 1830s more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic annually and as late as 1750 some 4.5 million of the estimated 6.6 million people who had come to the Americas since 1492 were African slaves.”
Herbert S. Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

“These changes occurred just as the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean islands and the Portuguese settlement of the Brazilian subcontinent was getting under way and thus opened the American market for African slaves. The decimation of the native Arawak and Carib peoples in the Caribbean islands, the first major zone of European settlement, especially encouraged the early experimentation with African slave labor.”
Herbert S. Klein, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

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