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Britain's Slave Empire

Britain's Slave Empire

by JamesWalvin (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $16.94
Synopsis

Describes the history of how the 'Africa Trade' formed the backbone of the British Empire. This book retells the story of how the international commodity market in Africans operated, how transportation of millions of Africans over thousands of miles developed and how the experience affected slaves both in bondage and then in freedom.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Tempus Publishing Ltd
Published: 01 Oct 2007
ISBN 10: 0752444271
ISBN 13: 9780752444277

Media Reviews
A thought provoking and invaluable contribution to the slavery debate . . . holds the readers' attention to the last page. --BBC History Magazine
Takes its place alongside Roy Foster's Modern Ireland and Simon Schama's Citizens as representing the best in recent narrative history. --Times Literary Supplement on Black Ivory
Narrative history at its best. --Daily Telegraph on Black Ivory
Author Bio
James Walvin is Professor of History at the University of York. He has written extensively on the history of slavery and is the author of Black Ivory: A History of Black Slavery ('Narrative history at its best' The Daily Telegraph, 'Black Ivory takes its place alondside Roy Foster's Modern Ireland and Simon Schama's Citizens as representing the best in recent narrative history' TLS), and A Short History of Slavery (Penguin 2007). He lives in York.