The Slave Trade
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:5th Jan '06
£20.00
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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.
A 'darkly compelling history of the trade'. * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
The most impressive single volume history of the subject. Combining grand narrative sweep with vivid, telling detail, Thomas provides an elegant synthesis of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship * LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS *
ISBN: 9780753820568
Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 62mm
Weight: 1058g
928 pages