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Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. / Radburn, Nicholas; Eltis, David.
In: Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 49, No. 4, 01.03.2019, p. 533-565.

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Radburn N, Eltis D. Visualizing the Middle Passage: The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 2019 Mar 1;49(4):533-565. Epub 2019 Mar 1. doi: 10.1162/jinh_a_01337

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Radburn, Nicholas ; Eltis, David. / Visualizing the Middle Passage : The Brooks and the Reality of Ship Crowding in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In: Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 2019 ; Vol. 49, No. 4. pp. 533-565.

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