The Slave Trade: History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Slave Trade: History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 Book

Hugh Thomas's The Slave Trade takes a big-picture view of New World slavery in its international context. The Portuguese and Spanish who first came to Africa, he writes, arrived in search of gold. They found it, but they also found social systems in which the ransom, buying, and selling of human beings had long been established. These systems had existed in European antiquity, and now they were revived when, shortly after making contact with Africa, the European nations began to establish colonies on the other side of the Atlantic; the horrible traffic continued well into the 19th century. Thomas mines vast archives and previously published histories to make this sweeping and remarkably useful synthesis.Read More

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  • 033035437X
  • 9780330354370
  • Hugh Thomas
  • 5 December 1997
  • Picador
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 600
  • First Edition
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