| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

The Final Victims: Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783–1810. By James A. McMillin. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 207 pp. $39.95, ISBN 157003-546-6.)
This book pulls together a mass of primary documentation and recent scholarship from the entire Atlantic world to offer fresh insight into an important subject.	1
Several historians have estimated the number of African slaves introduced into North America between the end of the American War of Independence in 1783 and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in 1808, ranging from Philip Curtin's estimate of 92,000 to Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman's mathematical deduction of 291,126. We want to know for several reasons. The exact number of imports is one measure of U.S. economic growth in the period. It helps to measure slaves' reproductive rates and evaluate the extent to which the United States received a final influx of African culture before 1808. Such data can also reveal much about the capitalist nature of the slave trade.	. . .

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