by HughThomas (Author)
The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas. In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 925
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: W&N
Published: 05 Jan 2006
ISBN 10: 0753820560
ISBN 13: 9780753820568
Book Overview: The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian