In the four centuries before the 1860s, the Atlantic slave trade transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the material well-being of the West and wrought enormous damage on Africa. This text aims to provide a fresh narrative and interpretation suitable for students and general readers alike.
Essays on the capture of slaves and the Middle Passage, the identities of the enslaved and their lives after capture, the economics of the slave trade, the struggle to end...
This new edition incorporates the latest findings of the last decade in slave trade studies carried out in Europe and America. It also includes new data on the slave trade voyages which have just recently been made available to the public.
Follows the slave trade from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to its abolishment after the Civil War, and describes slavery's impact on the people bought and sold.
This absorbing book is the first ever to focus on the traffic in Indian slaves during the early years of the American South.
This work shows the extent to which the shipping of Africans to the Americas continued after the Abolition Act of 1807.
A detailed history of the slave trade examines its causes and consequences, shows how African leaders attempted to halt it, and portrays European attitudes towards Africa
This book is intended for general reading, and may also serve as a book of reference. It is an attempt to compile and present in one volume the historical records...
Jenny Martinez shows in this volume that the international human rights movement has its roots in one of the 19th century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.
This book traces the inland origins of slaves leaving West Central Africa at the peak period of the transatlantic slave trade.
"Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly 200,000 Africans in the nineteenth century"--