Sins of the Fathers: A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807
- ISBN-10
- 0760704791
- ISBN-13
- 9780760704790
- Series
- Sins of the Fathers
- Category
- Slave trade
- Pages
- 286
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Author
- James Pope-Hennessy
Description
Adding perceptive commentary to the eyewitness accounts of slave traders, slaveholders and slaves themselves, James Pope-Hennessy affords the reader a broad view of the turbulent his tory of a disgraceful institution - three and a half centuries when the lives of Africans held little worth for their European captors beyond their cash value at auction.
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