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标题：Research Note on Captive Atlantic Flows: Estimating Missing Data by Slave-Voyage Routes
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作者：Patrick Manning ; Yu Liu
期刊名称：Journal of World-Systems Research
电子版ISSN：1076-156X
出版年度：2020
卷号：26
期号：1
页码：103-125
DOI：10.5195/jwsr.2020.971
出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：This essay provides new estimates of the number of captives carried in the Atlantic slave trade during each decade from the 1650s to the 1860s. It relies on two categories of known data—on the routes of voyages and the numbers of captives recorded on those voyages—as a basis for estimation of missing data and totals of captive flows. It uses techniques of Bayesian statistics to estimate missing data on routes and flows of captives. As a framework for the Bayesian estimates, it focuses on analysis of 40 distinct routes linking the African coast to the Americas and traces the captive flows—that is, the number of captives embarked on or disembarked from voyages along those routes. The dataset that provides the basis for this research note is available at: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6HLXO3 .
关键词：slave trade; voyages; routes; captive flows; Missing data; Bayesian estimates; Comparative methods and results