This survey is a synthesis of the economic social cultural and political histo...This survey is a synthesis of the economic social cultural and political history of the Atlantic slave trade providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares...more
This survey is a synthesis of the economic social cultural and political histo...This survey is a synthesis of the economic social cultural and political history of the Atlantic slave trade providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares...more
9780684835655. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Tradepaperback. Language: English. ...9780684835655. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 912. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 912 p. In a balanced approach to an explosive subject a history professor portrays the rise apogee and decline of the...more
After many years of research award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays in a...After many years of research award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays in a balanced account the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions Hugh Thomas describes and analyzes the rise of one of...more
Debates over the economic social and political meaning of slavery and the slav...Debates over the economic social and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays leading scholars...more
Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viki...Val Dufeu here reconstructs settlement patterns of fishing communities in Viking Age Iceland and proposes socio-economic and environmental models relevant to any study of the Vikings or the North Atlantic. She integrates written sources...more
We all know the story of theslavetrade--the infamous Middle Passage the horr...We all know the story of the slave trade--the infamous Middle Passage the horrifying conditions on slave ships the millions that died on the journey and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing...more
We all know the story of theslavetrade--the infamous Middle Passage the horr...We all know the story of the slave trade--the infamous Middle Passage the horrifying conditions on slave ships the millions that died on the journey and the auctions that awaited the slaves upon their arrival in the Americas. But much of the writing...more
The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atla...The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on...more
9780850315868. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Tradepaperback. Language: English. ...9780850315868. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 182. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 182 p. Over a period of 300 years 10 million slaves were brought from Africa to the Americas to work on the plantations...more
9780812223767. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Tradepaperback. Language: English. ...9780812223767. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 384. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Contains: Unspecified Illustrations black & white. Early Modern Americas. During the era of the Atlantic slave...more
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Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic...Presenting a thorough analysis of the Dutch participation in the transatlantic slave trade this book is based upon extensive research in Dutch archives. The book examines the whole range of Dutch involvement in the Atlantic slave trade from the...more
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