Cursed Capital: the Economic Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Walcheren around 1770
The island of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland was the largest Dutch slaving center in the eighteenth century. While the profitability of the slave trade itself was limited, it had important local economic effects. A clue comes from the excellently preserved archive of the largest slave trader:...
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| Language: | English |
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2016-09-01
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| Series: | Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis |
| Online Access: | https://tseg.nl/article/view/8154 |