Organization of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Global Supply Chain Perspective. [Sélectionné parmi les 30 « Best Papers » du Congrès, sur les 160 acceptés, pour publication, après modifications, dans un ouvrage paru également en 2017, ISBN: 978-87-7112-652-5]

Thierry Godbille (), François Fulconis () and Gilles Paché ()
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Thierry Godbille: AMU - Aix Marseille Université, CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université
François Fulconis: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université, AMU - Aix Marseille Université, LBNC - Laboratoire Biens, Normes, Contrats - AU - Avignon Université
Gilles Paché: CRET-LOG - Centre de Recherche sur le Transport et la Logistique - AMU - Aix Marseille Université, AMU - Aix Marseille Université

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Abstract: Transatlantic slave trade strongly linked Europe, Africa and the Americas between the XVI century and the XIX century to supply Europe with products from the Colonies and provide needed manpower for plantations in the New World. In other words, the objective was transporting slaves to American colonies for future sale, once there buying "raw materials" and then exporting those materials to Europe and along the way realizing a comfortable added value. This paper proposes analyzing this example of triangular trade from an original global supply chain perspective. It examines the role of the providers ensuring maritime logistics (shipping, auxiliary transport) and the customers (farmers in the Americas, wealthy families in Europe, and African warlords). The study of historical documents shows how the transatlantic slave trade organizers' approach explicitly relied on a kind of flow control based on known present day concepts in supply chain management.

Keywords: Transatlantic slave trade; Added value; Triangular trade; Global supply chain; Logistics; Supply chain management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-08-15
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Published in NHM-2017: 29. Nordiske HistorikerMøde - 29th Congress of Nordic Historians,, Nordiske HistorikerMøde - Aalborg University, Aug 2017, Aalborg Denmark. pp.1-17

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