Über den Autor Eltis David (Hrsg.)
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David Eltis is an Emeritus Professor of History at Emory University, Atlanta and a Research Associate at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Massachusetts and at the University of British Columbia. His publications include Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (with David Richardson, 2010), The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (1999), and Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1989).Stanley L. Engerman is Professor Emeritus at the University of Rochester, New York and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Massachusetts. Among his books are Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (with Robert William Fogel, 1974), Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives (2007), and Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (with Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Cambridge, 2011).Seymour Drescher is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His numerous publications include From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery (1999), The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor vs Slavery in British Emancipation (2002), and Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (Cambridge, 2009).David Richardson is a Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull, and the former Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull. He is author of the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (with David Eltis, 2010), and editor of Routes to Slavery: Direction, Ethnicity and Mortality in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (with David Eltis, 1997), Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (with David Eltis, 2008), and Networks of Transcultural Exchange: Slave Trading in the South Atlantic, 1590-1867 (with Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, 2014).
