Talk:Philip D. Curtin

Inkori Link
Hey team! Does anyone have an updated link for Inkori's disagreeing article? Footnote #4 is broken now. Karooney (talk) 19:12, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Estimate of Transatlantic number
I recently read a book by Richard Dunn that contradicts this description in the lede about the numbers of slaves shipped in regard to Curtain’s work. This is the operative quote.

“In the forty-five years since Curtin published his book, investigators have vastly improved our understanding of the transatlantic slave trade, and Curtin’s fi gures still look pretty good. In 2001, after analyzing the rec ords of 27,000 slave voyages, David Eltis calculated that 9,468,000 Africans were landed in America, with 4,371,100 coming to the Ca rib be an and 361,100 to North America.2 By 2013 the editors of the Trans- Atlantic Slave Trade Database, having analyzed 35,000 slave voyages, arrived at a larger total, estimating that 10,702,656 Africans landed in the Americas, with 5,065,117 coming to the Ca rib be an and 388,747 to North America.” From: Dunn, Richard. A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (London; Harvard University Press) 2014

The material cited is much later than the references contradicting Curtain and perhaps need to be updated or revisited. At least I think I may add this quote to the article since it appears relevant. Sych (talk) 02:56, 9 April 2022 (UTC)