The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 - 1870
- ISBN-10
- 0684835657
- ISBN-13
- 9780684835655
- Series
- The Slave Trade
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 908
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-02-03
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Hugh Thomas
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of the business of slave trading, from fifteenth-century Portuguese slaving expeditions to the abolition of slavery in Cuba and Brazil twenty-five years after the American Emancipation Proclamation
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