The Slave Trade
History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
$35.99
- Paperback
928 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2006
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753820568 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753820560 |
| Author: | Hugh Thomas |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 928 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 62mm |
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Critics Review
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 BOOKSAbout The Author
Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas has won the Somerset Maugham Prize and the National Book Award for History. He was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and received a peerage in 1981. He lives in London.
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