Novas interpretações do tráfico de escravos do Atlântico

Abstract

The surge of systematic research on the slave trade changed significant ideological and statistical errors dating from the abolitionist struggle. Concentrating on local african conditions, theses studies confirmed a majority of male slaves as opposed to one third of women and 10% of children. They established other significant peculiarities concerning demographic data or the relative percentages of participation of the different European nationalities. The intensification of research efforts resulted in significant re-evaluations on topics such as the role the slave trade played in the economic growth of european countries, the abolitionist campaign bringing new data on the distribution of the different african cultures in the new world or on the demographic and economic consequences that the slave trade brought to the african countries.