Slaving in Madagascar: english and Colonial Voyages in the second Half of the 17th century

Liliana Mosca in his Slaving in Madagascar:English and Colonail Voyages in the Second Half of the 17th Century analyses the historical records to give a picture of the slave trade from Madagascar to North America from 1628 to 1730. The slave trade in Madagascar was legal and had originally been in the hands of Arabs and Swahili traders. Later, English and American merchants as well as pirates played an important role, with the trade to British-American colonies peaking in the 1690s. In 1730, the island was regarded as outside “the normal course of the trade”.