The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 - 1870 Paperback - 1999
by Hugh Thomas
In a balanced approach to an explosive subject, a history professor portrays the rise, apogee, and decline of the slave trade, exposing its impact on world politics and civilization. of photos. Maps.
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"VERY EARLY in the morning, because of the heat," a few Portuguese seamen on the decks of half a dozen hundred-ton caravels, the new sailing ships, were preparing, on August 8, 1444, to land their African cargo near Lagos, on the southwest point of the Algarve, in Portugal.
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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, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.
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- Title The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 - 1870
- Author Hugh Thomas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 912
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, New York
- Date 1999-02-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780684835655 / 0684835657
- Weight 3 lbs (1.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 2 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 5.08 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 15th Century
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: African
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Slave trade - History, Slave trade - Africa
- Dewey Decimal Code 382.44
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Citations
- New York Times, 02/14/1999, Page 32
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