Title Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and Slaves : Colonial America and the Indo-Atlantic World

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Series Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Imprint Contents The spectrum of piracy -- New York merchants and the Indo-Atlantic trade -- Utopian dreamers and colonial disasters -- Pirate-settlers of Madagascar -- Seafaring slaves and freedom in the Indo-Atlantic world Summary "In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of the East Indies. Rather than conducting their commerce through chartered companies based in London or Lisbon, colonial merchants in New York entered into an alliance with Euro-American pirates based in Madagascar. Pirates, merchants, settlers, and slaves explores the resulting global trade network located on the bperipheries of world empires and shows the illicit ways American colonists met the consumer demand for slaves and East India goods. The book reveals that pirates played a significant yet misunderstood role in this period and that seafaring slaves were both commodities and essential components in the Indo-Atlantic maritime networks."--Provided by publisher Analysis 17th century world history 18th century world history american history atlantic ocean california world history series colonial america colonial merchants colonialism consumer demands early american commerce east indies euro american pirates global trade history indian ocean informal trade network merchant ships north american colonies north atlantic slave trade piracy pirates retrospective sailors seafarers seafaring slave trade slavery transoceanic network world empires world history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes "The Fletcher Jones Foundation Humanities Imprint"--Page [v] Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 17th century Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 18th century Pirates -- United States -- History -- 17th century Pirates -- United States -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- World. Pirates Slave trade United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520958784 0520958780

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