| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Joseph C. Dorsey. Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815–1859. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2003. Pp. xvii, 311. $59.95.

Recent advances in knowledge of the ocean-borne segment of the transatlantic slave trade serve to underline how little, by comparison, we know of the movement of slaves both before they boarded, and after they left, the vessels that completed the middle passage. Joseph C. Dorsey's book has the rare merit of attempting to integrate all phases of the movement of people from Africa to the Americas, albeit for a forty-five-year period for one Caribbean island, Puerto Rico. Most unusually for a slave-trade monograph, it addresses non-African immigration as well, with the whole approached from a commendable transnational perspective. In the process the book deals with the rarely discussed topics of the later Dutch, French, and Danish intra-Caribbean traffic, as well as the movements of slaves from British to Spanish Caribbeans. Moreover, the author is not averse to bringing in Asia when appropriate. Although Dorsey's central interest and expertise is Puerto Rico, his book has chapters on Africa as well as the Americas, and, in addition, many passages on both slaves and the organizations of people that brought them to the Americas that are genuinely transatlantic in focus. This is an unusual range, even in an era of growth in Atlantic history.

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