Philip D. Curtin
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Philip D. Curtin (born 1922)[1] is a Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins University[2] and historian on Africa and the Atlantic slave trade. He has published an estimate that from the 1500s to 1870, around 9,566,000 African slaves were imported to the Americas. (This figure, however, is disputed by Joseph E. Inikori, who argues for the higher estimate of around 15,000,000.)[3]
Curtin has published a total of 19 books,[1] which include Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century, described by the American Historical Review (AHR) as "ground-breaking."[4] In addition to the aforementioned calculation, he has challenged the commonly-held view that advances in medicine were responsible for increased attempts at European colonization of Africa in the 1800s.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Prof. Philip D. Curtin. getCITED.org. getCITED Inc. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
- ^ Faculty Directory. jhu.edu. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
- ^ Schoenherr, Steve. Atlantic Slave Trade. University of San Diego. Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
- ^ a b The American Historical Review, 104.5: Book Review. History Cooperative. University of Illinois Press (December 1995). Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
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